
When Texas Congresswoman Julie Johnson stepped onto the House floor in January as part of the 119th Congress, she already had pragmatic instincts of a seasoned legislator, but now she was making history. Johnson is the first out LGBTQ+ member of Congress ever elected from the South. She is also one of the few first-year lawmakers entering the Washington, D.C. maelstrom with years of bipartisan legislative wins already under her belt.
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