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Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before her election to Congress, Omar served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019, representing part of Minneapolis.
Feb 2, 2023 · The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass a resolution to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Jul 2, 2024 · Ilhan Omar is an American policy analyst, organizer, public speaker, advocate, and politician who began representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, in 2019. Upon her inauguration to the U.S. House of Representatives, she became the first.
Jul 2, 2024 · WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) led a letter urging President Joe Biden and Attorney General Garland to establish an Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address alarming disparities in violence.
Ilhan Omar is a U.S. Representative and a progressive voice on social justice, human rights, and foreign policy. Follow her official Twitter account to get updates on her work, views, and engagements with the public and the media.
An experienced Twin Cities policy analyst, organizer, public speaker and advocate, Rep. Omar was sworn into office in January 2019, making her the first African refugee to become a Member of Congress, the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, and one of the first two Muslim-American women elected to Congress.
Apr 13, 2021 · Who Is Ilhan Omar? Ilhan Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and spent four years in a refugee camp before her family received asylum in the United States.
Feb 2, 2023 · Republicans have ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from her committee post in a sign of escalating tensions in the US Congress. They voted to remove Ms Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Aug 15, 2018 · Most coverage of Ilhan Omar, the thirty-five-year-old state legislator who won the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District last night, has focussed on her...
2 days ago · Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a prominent member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called “leaks” and a “lack of leadership” within the Democratic Party “shameful” amid deep questio…
