Progressive Democrat Summer Lee won election to the House during the 2022 midterm.  Defeating Republican candidate Mike Doyle in the 12th Congressional District race, Lee became the first Black woman […] The post Summer Lee Elected First Black Woman To Congress For Pennsylvania appeared first on Essence.

Razor-thin margins around the country left control of Congress still undetermined, but Democrats showed surprising strength in the midterm election.

The ballot measure would have given the town one of the highest minimum wages in the country and eliminated the lower wage floor for servers.

Neither candidate in the closely watched race secured the majority vote needed to go straight to Congress.