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Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi vows ‘different world’ for Trump with new Congress, no more ‘rubber stamp’

January 3, 2019Nicole Gaudiano and Eliza Collins, USA TODAYComments Off

Nancy Pelosi plans to confront Donald Trump on manyfronts, from investigating the deaths of child migrants to protecting Robert Mueller’s probe.

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Cookie ethics: Congresswoman-elect asks if she’s still allowed to sell Girl Scout cookies

November 17, 2018Nicole Gaudiano and Eliza Collins, USA TODAYComments Off

Rep.-elect Abigail Spanberger is one of her daughter’s troop leaders, and as she prepares for her new job representing Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, she wonders if she has a conflict of interest.

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‘Awakening’: Abigail Spanberger’s House win illustrates the shift of US politics in ‘year of the badass woman’

November 16, 2018Nicole Gaudiano and Eliza Collins, USA TODAYComments Off

What happened in Abigail Spanberger’s district is not only emblematic of the 2018 election, but of political shifts across the US for the last decade.