Named after a longtime Jewish lawmaker who championed peace, the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act became ...

Nita Lowey stayed home for 13 years to raise her children while serving as a PTA president in the Bronx. Then Mario Cuomo ...

Nita Lowey become assistant secretary of state in 1988 when she defeated a Republican incumbent to enter Congress. She then ...

Nita M. Lowey, a veteran legislator from New York who served 16 terms until her retirement after the 116th Congress, died on ...

A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House ...

Former Democratic New York Rep. Nita Lowey died on Saturday after a yearslong battle with breast cancer, according to a ...

Nita Lowey, the former 16-term congresswoman from New York, has died after a battle with breast cancer, her family says.

Former Rep. Nita Lowey, who represented New York in Congress for 32 years and became the first woman to chair the House ...

NEW YORK -- Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House ...

Nita Lowey, the New York representative who became the first woman to lead the budget-setting House Appropriations Committee, ...

Former New York Rep. Nita Lowey (D) died on Saturday, her family confirmed in a statement sent to CBS News. “With great ...