NEW YORK (AP) Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87.
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Ex-US Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat who chaired powerful House Appropriations Committee, dies - The Associated Press
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey has died at the age of 87. Lowey’s family says in a statement that she died Saturday after battling metastatic breast cancer. Lowey was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee that, with its …
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