Scientists and Physicians Win Congress Seats to Fight Trump’s Anti-Science Agenda
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 6
Scientists and Physicians Win Congress Seats to Fight Trump’s Anti-Science Agenda
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 6
Summary
Several scientists and physicians elected on Tuesday say they will take their expertise to Congress to challenge what they view as anti-science Trump administration policies, with most of the newcomers headed to the House.
Daniel K. Biss, 49, a former University of Chicago mathematician and Evanston mayor, is among the incoming lawmakers after winning a North Side Chicago-area seat.
314 Action, which recruits Democratic doctors and scientists to run, called the wins a repudiation of two years of damage to science and public health and backed House winners plus two Senate victors.
Those Senate winners — epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and pediatrician Annie Andrews in South Carolina — add to a broader Democratic push to build a science- and medicine-focused bloc in Washington.