congressional delegation
noun
: the group of officials elected to the U.S. Congress from a particular state
the state's congressional delegation
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After days of working with Colorado’s congressional delegation and the U.S. Embassy, Kuziez and his colleagues were cleared to head south Monday, just as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were allowed to return home to northern Gaza.
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
The week’s biggest stories California Rep. Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after an injury in Europe
Pelosi was injured in a fall during an official engagement while traveling with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Luxembourg, according to her spokesperson.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Topline Nancy Pelosi has undergone hip replacement surgery, her office announced Saturday, after the former House speaker, who traveled with a congressional delegation to Luxembourg, fell down marble stairs.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
The controversial project was criticized by Idaho’s congressional delegation as well as local farmers, ranchers and supporters of the nearby Minidoka National Historic Site, a former World War II incarceration camp for Japanese Americans.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
The week’s biggest stories California Rep. Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized after an injury in Europe
Pelosi was injured in a fall during an official engagement while traveling with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Luxembourg, according to her spokesperson.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Topline Nancy Pelosi has undergone hip replacement surgery, her office announced Saturday, after the former House speaker, who traveled with a congressional delegation to Luxembourg, fell down marble stairs.
—Ty Roush, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
The controversial project was criticized by Idaho’s congressional delegation as well as local farmers, ranchers and supporters of the nearby Minidoka National Historic Site, a former World War II incarceration camp for Japanese Americans.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Jan. 2025
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