Congress Has 100 Women For First Time
Eric Cantor's vanquisher was among three sworn in to the House before other incoming freshmen.
Representative-elect Alma Adams, Democrat of North Carolina, and the 100th woman in the 113th Congress, holds a meeting with Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi in Pelosi's office at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 12, 2014.
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Finally, Congress has a full House.
Three people who won special elections and full two-year terms on Election Day were sworn in Wednesday night to join the soon-to-end 113th Congress, which now has a full contingent of 435 members for the first time since June 2013. (There is almost always at least one vacancy because of a resignation or death, and it takes months to go through the process of filling the seat through special election.)