The record number of women sworn into office Jan. 3 has changed the face of Congress. The freshman class in the House is the youngest and most racially diverse in history.

It includes the first Muslim and first Native American women. Several states have sent African-American women to the House for the first time, and Texas, a state that is 40 percent Hispanic, has elected its first Latinas. Several of the new women identify as lesbian or bisexual.

In the Senate, six states are now represented only by women, also a first. Together, these women make up nearly a quarter of the voting membership in Congress.

And Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful elected woman in U.S. history, has regained her title as House Speaker, this time for the 116th Congress.