199 Facts About Congresswoman

1. Barbara Lee endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president in the 2008 primary.

2. Louise Slaughter is one of several Democratic congressmen who post at Daily Kos, a Democratic-oriented blog.

3. Maxine Waters vowed to settle some scores if Democrats win back the House in the midterm elections.

4. Sean Combs threw Quincy a celebrity-studded party and gave him two cars as his 16th birthday present.

5. Northern Virginia has Amtrak passenger rail service along several corridors, and Virginia Railway Express maintains two commuter lines into Washington, DC from Fredericksburg and Manassas.

6. Barbara Comstock is credited with writing the Republican "playbook" defending Bush nominees such as John Ashcroft for US Attorney General.

7. In 2010, Barbara Lee joined Republicans in voting against the use of military force in Libya.

8. Barbara Lee disagreed with the National Park Service removing funding for a Black Panther Legacy Project in 2017.

9. Louise Slaughter was one of 158 Democrats to vote against the amendment.

10. Maxine Waters is asking Democrats to support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for Speaker as anti-Pelosi Democrats have moved this week to block her from winning the Speakership on the first ballot.

11. Maxine Waters is pledging to be a diligent watchdog for mom-and.

12. Sean Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, in 1993.

13. Sean Combs played Walter Lee Younger in the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and the television adaptation that aired in February 2008.

14. The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary army for the Confederate States of America in the east.

15. Barbara Comstock spent $23.03 per general election vote received in 2014.

16. Barbara Comstock was one of 190 Republicans to vote in favor of the amendment.

17. Louise Slaughter is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.

18. Barbara Lee voted to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011.

19. In 2002, Representative Barbara Lee received the Courage of Conscience Award in Boston from the Peace Abbey for her courage to stand alone and vote against the call to war after the tragedy of September 11.

20. On November 2, 2004, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

21. Maxine Waters is all fired up because Betsy DeVos is protecting the civil rights of all students.

22. Barbara Comstock was ranked as the 82nd most bipartisan member of the US House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center.

23. Louise Slaughter spent $8.23 per general election vote received in 2014.

24. Louise Slaughter paid her congressional staff a total of $1,070,488 in 2011.

25. In March 2017, Barbara Comstock signed onto a Republican resolution acknowledging the impact of human activities on global climate.

26. In October 2007 Sean Combs agreed to help develop the Ciroc vodka brand for a 50 percent share of the profits.

27. Louise Slaughter was strongly critical of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which places limits on taxpayer-funding for elective abortions in the context of the November 2009 Affordable Health Care for America Act.

28. Northern Virginia has a mixed health record, and is ranked as the 26th overall healthiest state according to the 2013 United Health Foundation's Health Rankings.

29. Sean Combs was raised as Roman Catholic and attended the all-boys Catholic high school, Mount Saint Michael Academy, graduating in 1987.

30. Northern Virginia has the highest defense spending of any state per capita, providing the Commonwealth with around 900,000 jobs.

31. On November 7, 2000, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

32. Louise Slaughter is one of the most liberal and progressive members of the New York congressional delegation from upstate New York, and in the 110th Congress, was the most progressive member of the entire House of Representatives according to the National Journal.

33. In 2014, Sean Combs received an honorary doctorate from Howard University, where he gave the commencement speech for its 146th commencement ceremony.

34. Barbara Comstock decided she had enough and decided that she wanted to play offense.

35. On November 4, 1986, Louise Slaughter won election to the United States House.

36. In November 2008, Sean Combs added a men's perfume called "I Am King" to the Sean John brand.

37. Sean Combs collaborated with Jimmy Page on the song "Come with Me" for the 1998 film Godzilla.

38. Sean Combs has never been married to any of the mothers of his kids.

39. Barbara Lee gained national attention in 2001 as the only member of congress to vote "No" on the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, stating that she voted no not because she opposed military action but because she believed the AUMF, as written, granted overly-broad powers to wage war to the president at a time when the facts regarding the situation were not yet clear.

40. Louise Slaughter was chairwoman of the United States House Committee on Rules during the writing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and managed the rule for the legislation on the House Floor.

41. Barbara Lee has two sons, Tony and Craig, and she raised them on her own as a single mother.

42. Barbara Comstock was re-elected to her seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2011 and 2013.

43. Louise Slaughter was re-elected to the US House in 2010 for a thirteenth term.

44. Northern Virginia is the most populous US state without a major professional sports league franchise.

45. Barbara Comstock won the election on November 4, 2014, defeating Democrat John Foust with 56 percent of the vote.

46. Barbara Lee joined her Republican colleagues, one of 70 Democrats to do so, in voting against a resolution to authorize limited use of force in Libya.

47. In September 2008, Maxine Waters arranged meetings between US Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash.

48. Louise Slaughter declared that "the greatest thing she has done in her time in Congress" is passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008.

49. Louise Slaughter voted against the Farm Bill on July 11, 2013.

50. Since the retirement of Charles Rangel, Louise Slaughter has risen to dean of the New York House of Representatives delegation.

51. Louise Slaughter defeated Eckert by one point in the 1986 midterm election.

52. Northern Virginia was entombed on the east side of Christ Church in Winchester.

53. Sean Combs has donated computers and books to New York schools.

54. Maxine Waters had a confrontation over an earmark in the United States House Committee on Appropriations with fellow Democratic congressman Dave Obey in 2009.

55. Maxine Waters voted against the Iraq War Resolution, the 2002 resolution that funded and granted Congressional approval to possible military action against the regime of Saddam Hussein.

56. In 2005 Sean Combs sold half of his record company to the Warner Music Group.

57. In November 2012 Sean Combs appeared in an episode of the eighth season of the American sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

58. Barbara Comstock voted with 237 Republicans in favor of the bill.

59. Louise Slaughter had two brothers, Philip and David as well as two sisters, Marjorie and Virginia.

60. Sean Combs was a business major at Howard University but left after his sophomore year.

61. Louise Slaughter has voted against all attempts to repeal or delay the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

62. Barbara Comstock was defeated in the general election on November 6, 2018.

63. On November 8, 1994, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

64. Sean Combs announced his sixth and last studio album, No Way Out 2, is currently in the works.

65. In 2005, Barbara Comstock was hired by Dan Glickman to lobby on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America.

66. In February 2018, Barbara Comstock told a House subcommittee that women were being pushed out of jobs in science and technology.

67. On November 6, 1990, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

68. Barbara Comstock voted with 201 Republicans and 105 Democrats in favor of the bill.

69. Barbara Lee was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.

70. On November 2, 2010, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

71. Sean Combs owns a home in Alpine, New Jersey, which he purchased for a reported $7 million.

72. In 2008, Barbara Comstock was a consultant on the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.

73. Northern Virginia has 30 National Park Service units, such as Great Falls Park and the Appalachian Trail, and one national park, the Shenandoah National Park.

74. In 1997, under the name Puff Daddy, Sean Combs recorded his first commercial vocal work as a rapper.

75. Sean Combs was raised Roman Catholic, and was an altar server as a boy.

76. Louise Slaughter was a co-sponsor of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, and fought to ensure the legislation included language guaranteeing that women and minorities were included in all federal health clinical trials from that point forward.

77. Sean Combs responded with an extensive investigation, telling reporters "I'm as pro-worker as they get".

78. In 2011, Louise Slaughter secured $62.5 million in federal funding for the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at University of Rochester.

79. Louise Slaughter was one of 175 Democrats to vote in favor of HR 1295.

80. Kate Upton Rumor Sean Combs is rumored to have hooked up with American Model Kate Upton in 2013.

81. Barbara Comstock was one of 86 Republicans to vote in favor of TAA.

82. In 2011, Barbara Comstock voted in favor of HB 462, which required women to have transvaginal ultrasounds before receiving an abortion.

83. In 2011, Maxine Waters voted against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 as part of a controversial provision that allows the government and the military to indefinitely detain American citizens and others without trial.

84. In October 2011, Maxine Waters engaged in a public dispute with Obama, arguing that he paid more attention to the swing voters of the Iowa primaries than to equal numbers of black voters.

85. On September 29, 2008, Barbara Lee was one of 95 Democrats to vote against the defeated Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

86. Barbara Comstock was one of 111 Republicans to vote in favor of HR 1295.

87. Northern Virginia is home to a small Tibetan American community as well.

88. Louise Slaughter decided to run for the Monroe County Legislature, winning on her third try.

89. Maxine Waters pledged Wednesday that Trump administration efforts to roll back banking reforms won't stand when the new Congress convenes.

90. Barbara Lee hopes Maria's story can serve as a reminder of how many others need our help.

91. In 2014, Sean Combs received an honorary doctorate from Howard University, where he served as the keynote speaker for its 146th commencement ceremony.

92. Sean Combs acquired the Enyce clothing line from Liz Claiborne for $20 million on October 21, 2008.

93. Barbara Lee voted in favor of similar resolutions involving troop withdrawal from Pakistan and, most recently, Libya.

94. On November 4, 2008, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

95. Louise Slaughter ranked as the 116th most wealthy representative in 2012.

96. Barbara Lee is a strong advocate for legislation restricting the availability of guns.

97. Sean Combs used his former stage name Puff Daddy for the album.

98. On November 2009 Barbara Lee was one of 36 representatives to vote "nay" on House Resolution 867, which condemned the UN's Goldstone Report.

99. In February 2015, Sean Combs teamed up with actor Mark Wahlberg and businessman Ronald Burkle of Yucaipa Companies to purchase a majority holding in Aquahydrate, a calorie-free beverage for athletes.

100. In 1998 Maxine Waters wrote a letter to Castro citing the 1960s and 1970s as "a sad and shameful chapter of our history", and thanked Castro for providing help to those who needed to "flee political persecution".

101. On November 5, 1996, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

102. Louise Slaughter voted with 78 Democrats and 37 Republicans against the bill.

103. Maxine Waters wants bank CEOs to testify as she seeks to ramp up regulatory oversight.

104. Barbara Lee was strongly critical of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which places restrictions on health insurance plans providing coverage for abortions in the context of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

105. Sean Combs appeared as a drug dealer in the film Made and starred with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton in Monster's Ball.

106. On November 3, 1998, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

107. Barbara Lee worked on Bobby Seale's 1973 campaign for mayor in Oakland.

108. Louise Slaughter spent $8.68 per general election vote received in 2016.

109. Northern Virginia has launched many award-winning traditional musical artists and internationally successful popular music acts, as well as Hollywood actors.

110. In March 2010, Louise Slaughter proposed that a House rule be passed to expedite the passage of health care reform legislation.

111. Maxine Waters will soon wield gavel in feud with White House.

112. Northern Virginia has many professional caliber golf courses including the Greg Norman course at Lansdowne Resort and Kingsmill Resort, home of the Kingsmill Championship, an LPGA Tour tournament.

113. Louise Slaughter fought to include language establishing an Office of Research on Women's Health at NIH in the legislation.

114. Louise Slaughter was a superdelegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention from New York.

115. Barbara Lee went to Mills College while raising her two children, and during this time, she received public assistance, according to the biography page on her website.

116. Barbara Comstock voted with 225 other Republicans to approve the bill.

117. Sean Combs is the head of Sean Combs Enterprises, an umbrella company for his portfolio of businesses.

118. On November 8, 1988, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

119. In 2016, Sean Combs donated $1 million to Howard University to establish the Sean Combs Scholarship Fund to help students who are unable to pay their tuition.

120. Climate of Northern Virginia is humid subtropical and becomes increasingly warmer and more humid farther south and east.

121. Maxine Waters promises change if selected to lead Financial Services Committee.

122. Barbara Lee was one of only 13 Democrats to vote against an emergency supplemental appropriations bill in 2007 which, among other things, funded the war in Iraq but required withdrawal of US forces to begin by October 1.

123. Sean Combs starred in the 2005 film Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.

124. Louise Slaughter voted with the Democratic Party 93.3 percent of the time, which ranked 76th among the 201 House Democratic members as of June 2013.

125. Northern Virginia does not have any further political subdivisions, such as villages or townships.

126. In 2010, Barbara Lee took the food stamp challenge and appeared in the documentary film Food Stamped.

127. Northern Virginia lured Amazon to Crystal City in Arlington County with an economic development package focused on its ability to create technology-fluent talent.

128. Maxine Waters began to call for the impeachment of Trump shortly after he took office.

129. Barbara Comstock criticizing her opponent Democratic state Senator Jennifer Wexton for failing to support anti-gang legislation falls short.

130. In 2006, when Sean Combs refused to release musician Mase from his contractual obligations to allow him to join the group G-Unit, 50 Cent recorded a dis song, "Hip-Hop".

131. Sean Combs was born in Harlem and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York.

132. Sean Combs has a major equity stake in Revolt TV, a television network that has a film production branch.

133. Barbara Comstock endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.

134. Sean Combs faces charges of gun possession after a 1999 nightclub shooting.

135. Barbara Comstock was first elected to the US House in 2014.

136. The Eastern District of Northern Virginia ranked sixth among non-border districts in illegal re-entry prosecutions last fiscal year.

137. Up until the 1970s, Northern Virginia was a racially divided one-party state dominated by the Byrd Organization.

138. On July 29, 1994, Maxine Waters came to public attention when she repeatedly interrupted a speech by Peter King.

139. Louise Slaughter signed a letter sent to Collin Peterson in August 2013, asking him to keep Steve King's amendment out of the final Farm Bill.

140. Northern Virginia has its own Hercules who totally deserves a movie.

141. Maxine Waters referred to the high unemployment rate for African Americans.

142. Louise Slaughter challenged Hanna, and she won with 52 percent of the vote.

143. Maxine Waters made it clear that investigating Trump is not going to be the dominant.

144. Sean Combs ventured into reality television in August 2008 with the premiere of his VH1 series I Want to Work for Diddy.

145. Barbara Comstock was one of 191 Republicans to support the measure.

146. Maxine Waters opposed the 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti and criticized US involvement.

147. Barbara Lee currently serves as whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

148. On November 5, 2002, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

149. In 2004 Sean Combs headed the campaign "Vote or Die" for the 2004 presidential election.

150. In 2007, Louise Slaughter introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would limit the use of antibiotics in livestock feed, to counter the threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

151. Sean Combs owns a home in Alpine, New Jersey, which he bought for a reported $7 million.

152. Maxine Waters was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1998.

153. On September 2, 2007, Sean Combs held his ninth annual "White Party", at which guests are limited to an all-white dress code.

154. Louise Slaughter was the primary sponsor of 12 bills that were enacted.

155. Northern Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution.

156. Barbara Lee was one of only 36 Democrats to vote in favor of limiting funds appropriated for military operations in Libya.

157. Northern Virginia has a significantly larger job base than either Washington or the Maryland portion of its suburbs, and is the highest-income region of Virginia, having several of the highest-income counties in the nation.

158. Sean Combs took legal responsibility for Chance in October 2007.

159. On November 3, 1992, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

160. Sean Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding Bad Boy Records in 1993.

161. On May 20 and 21, 2016, Sean Combs launched a tour of Bad Boy Records' biggest names to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the label.

162. Sean Combs began working with a series of unusual artists.

163. Louise Slaughter claimed in a tweet that ending DACA would be bad for business.

164. Louise Slaughter sat in the 185th and 186th New York State Legislatures.

165. In 2007, New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter became the first woman to chair the Rules Committee.

166. Barbara Comstock voted with 243 Republicans and 25 Democrats against the bill.

167. Northern Virginia lands a big chunk of Amazon's second corporate headquarters.

168. Sean Combs was executive producer of the reality TV show Making the Band, which appeared on MTV from 2002 to 2009.

169. In 2009, Barbara Comstock was elected to a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.

170. Barbara Lee gives the official statistics on illegal drug imports and where those drugs enter the US contrary to Donald Trump's assertions.

171. Barbara Lee was a staff member for United States Representative Ron Dellums and a member of the California State Assembly and the California State Senate before entering the House.

172. Northern Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers.

173. Barbara Comstock voted with 222 other Republican representatives to approve the bill.

174. Barbara Lee was one of only 46 Democrats to vote for the Online Freedom of Speech Act of 2005.

175. Sean Combs is the designer of the Dallas Mavericks alternate jersey.

176. Sean Combs founded Daddy's House Social Programs, an organization to help inner city youth, in 1995.

177. Barbara Comstock spent $24.95 per general election vote received in 2016.

178. Barbara Lee has two sons, Tony and Craig, both of whom work in the insurance industry.

179. On November 7, 2006, Louise Slaughter won re-election to the United States House.

180. Louise Slaughter managed a one-point victory in the 1986 midterm election.

181. Sean Combs would come to adopt Quincy after getting serious with Kim.

182. Louise Slaughter was a member of a variety of congressional caucuses.

183. Louise Slaughter was one of several Democratic members of Congress who posted at Daily Kos, a Democratic-oriented blog.

184. Louise Slaughter was one of the most liberal and progressive members of the New York congressional delegation from upstate New York, and in the 110th Congress, was the most progressive member of the entire House of Representatives according to the National Journal.

185. Sean Combs eulogized Porter at her funeral in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia.

186. Sean Combs made an appearance at comedian Chris Gethard's live show in January 2010 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.

187. Sean Combs created a rap supergroup in 2010 known as the Dream Team.

188. Northern Virginia has actually been a leading provider of cat pictures for over a decade, as Wired dubbed it the "Internet Capital" back in 1999, when Virginia revealed a special "Internet C@pital" vanity license plate.

189. Louise Slaughter was one of 144 Democrats to vote against the bill.

190. In 2008 Sean Combs was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

191. Sean Combs was charged with four weapons-related charges and bribing his driver, Wardel Fenderson, to claim ownership of his gun.

192. Sean Combs hosted the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2005 by Time magazine.

193. Northern Virginia was a focal point in conflicts from the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Civil War, to the Cold War and the War on Terrorism.

194. Louise Slaughter was the lead House sponsor of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which became law in 2008.

195. Northern Virginia was a great proponent of the bustling port city of Alexandria, which was located on the Potomac River below the fall line, not far from his plantation at Mount Vernon in Fairfax County.

196. Barbara Lee is the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and is the current Whip and former Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

197. Louise Slaughter was one of 157 Democrats to vote against the measure.

198. New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter has died at the age of 88.

199. Northern Virginia will give Amazon almost $600 million, while NY will give the company roughly $1.5 billion.