The House has 81 women, 61 of them Democrats. The Senate includes 20 women — still just a fifth of the chamber.
There will be now be 42 African Americans in the House and one in the Senate — Scott, the first black Republican in the Senate since 1979.
Two of the Senate’s three Hispanics will be Republicans (Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida). Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.) is a Democrat. Of the 29 Latinos in the House, 24 are Democrats. (Wash Post, 1/4/2012)
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