Political Milestone: US Congress now has 100 Women

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For the first time, the number of women in Congress has hit triple digits.

Alma Adams, a Democrat from North Carolina, was elected representative for the 12th Congressional District on Tuesday. Because it was a special election, she will be sworn in immediately and join the 113th Congress.

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Before Adams’s election, there were 20 female senators and 79 female representatives in Congress, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

Preliminary results from the 2014 midterm elections, also on Tuesday, indicate that the number of women in Congress should remain above 100 — right now it is tentatively 101 — during the 114th Congress, according to data collected by the center.

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