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Representative Bill Schuette from Michigan once told voters, “Congress is not the sole suppository (sic) of wisdom.”
After Texas state Representative Larry Evans died in 1991, his votes on several issues were recorded (electronically) right up until the moment that police announced they had found his corpse.
The first state to send two women to represent it in the U.S. Senate (simultaneously) was California.
As of 2000, the three men receiving the most votes in history for U.S. President are, in order, Ronald Reagan in 1984, Al Gore in 2000, and George W. Bush in 2000
IThe first woman elected to the Congress was Jeanette Rankin, elected in 1917 from Montana.
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