When Rep. Chrissy Houlahan sits down to question witnesses at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, it can feel like a time machine back to her own military service.
For one thing, the officers seated across from her are often mostly male.
“When you’re sitting across from a row of general officers, and the vast majority of them are men, and the person behind them is a woman, that was kind of what it was like 30 years ago,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said.