Gwen Moore
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"Gwendolynne Sophia "Gwen" Moore" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party.

The district is based in Milwaukee and as a result of the 2011 redistricting also includes some nearby Milwaukee County, Wisconsin/Milwaukee County suburbs: Bayside, Wisconsin/Bayside, Brown Deer, Wisconsin/Brown Deer, Cudahy, Wisconsin/Cudahy, Fox Point, Wisconsin/Fox Point, Glendale, Wisconsin/Glendale, St. Francis, Wisconsin/St. Francis, South Milwaukee, Wisconsin/South Milwaukee, West Milwaukee, Wisconsin/West Milwaukee, Shorewood, Wisconsin/Shorewood and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin/Whitefish Bay. She is the first woman to represent the district. She is also the second woman after Tammy Baldwin and the first African-American elected to Congress from Wisconsin.

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I love my son very much. I'm very proud of him. He's accepted responsibility.

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Whenever I would get discouraged, I'd see the faces of the people who were going to have no voice in government if I weren't elected. A lot of them were female. A lot of them were people of color. And a lot of them were white, and they were poor. And they didn't matter. They just were obscure.

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I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.

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I love this thing because all the camaraderie.

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By the eleventh grade I realized with horror that my assumption of attending college was no more than that - an assumption.

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I supported that resolution because I wanted to bring the administration forward to answer some questions about what they knew, when they knew it, and what they've authorized.

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Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

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There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses.

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