Friday, January 12, 2018

Grassroots group tries to get a new kind of doctor in the House (and Senate)

Grassroots group tries to get a new kind of doctor in the House (and Senate)-stat: Since 1960, nearly 50 doctors have traded in their white coats for the suit jackets required in the halls of Congress. And there’s been one remarkable constant: The doctors-turned-legislators in those blazers have been overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly Republican. Just a handful were Democrats and only two were women. None were both.