Bee State News: State Adds to Congress' Diversity

WASHINGTON – The new Congress looks like a changing country, and California's delegation looks a lot like the change.

 

The Golden State elected more newcomers to the House of Representatives in November than any time in decades, and their varied backgrounds reflect a Congress with a historic number of women, minorities and gays.

 

 

There's Rep. Raul Ruiz of Palm Desert, the son of farmworkers who earned three graduate degrees at Harvard and came back home to practice medicine.