Each House office should have a "diversity" officer and use "anti-racism" training programs, according to a group of former high-ranking Hill staffers.
Why Do So Many Congress Members Have No Staffers of Color?
The U.S. Capitol is seen on Monday.
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The 117
th U.S. Congress is the most diverse in history but what about the people behind those legislators? The press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of staff for these lawmakers are often invisible, but their fingerprints are all over every U.S. law that passes. Researchers at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies surveyed Senate and House top staff positions and found that in the House, just 14 percent of these jobs are held by people of color. In the Senate, where staff sizes are even larger, that number is just 11 percent. This lack of diversity is apparent on both sides of the aisle. If the people staffing a legislator’s office aren’t representative, how representative can their
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Democrats want ban on gender-specific words in Congress
3 Jan, 2021 05:58 PM
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By: Nick Allen
Republicans have condemned a Democratic plan to eliminate gender-specific pronouns such as he and she from the rules of the United States House of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, announced the proposal as a bold and future-focused move, and said it would make the lower chamber of Congress the most inclusive in history for transgender and nonbinary people.
The move would do away with any gender-specific references, such as man , woman , husband or wife in the 45-page text of the rules that will govern the House during the 117th Congress, which convenes today.