A look inside the most diverse Congress in history

• By the numbers: 25 women will serve in the Senate, including 17 Democrats and 8 Republicans. In the House, 13 Republican women will take their seats — 10 fewer than last Congress — along with 89 Democratic women, according to AP.

More firsts:

• Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) will be the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.
• Tlaib will be the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, and she will take her oath on a Quran that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson.
• Omar will be the first Somali-American in congressional history.
• Reps. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) and Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) will be the first Native American women in Congress.
• Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell will be the first Ecuadorian-American and first immigrant born in South America to be sworn into Congress.
• Texas will have its first Latina members of Congress, Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia.

• Massachusetts and Connecticut will each send African-American women to Congress for the first time, Ayanna Pressley and Jahana Hayes, respectively.
• New Hampshire will send its first openly gay member of Congress, Chris Pappas.
• A woman will represent both Arizona (Democrat Kyrsten Sinema) and Tennessee (Republican Marsha Blackburn) in the Senate for the first time.
• 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will become the youngest woman to serve in congressional history.

The bottom line: While this Congress is still far from reflecting the true makeup of the U.S. population, its diverse voices and experiences will undoubtedly impact the debate and legislation for the next 2 years.