Democrats in House Want to End Ban on Headgear While First Muslim Women Enter Congress

the first two Muslim women elected to Congress will soon be coming to Capitol Hill. And with them could be put an end to a ban of 181 years on the headgear at home.

Democrats in the House are asking the House to change its rules on hairstyling to allow members to wear religious clothing such as the hijab worn by some Muslim women and the kippah traditionally worn by Jewish men.

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, wearing a headscarf, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, are the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress. Omar tweeted over the weekend that she would attack the ban once she was sworn in in January.

"No one puts a scarf on my head except me – it's my choice – protected by the first amendment," Omar wrote on Twitter, adding, "And this is not the last ban for which I'm going to work."

A project entitled "New Congress, New Rules" proposed by the House Democrats specifically mentions this change, stating that it "will clarify in the rules that the wearing of a religious headgear is allowed in the chamber of the House "in order to" guarantee religious expression ". The proposal indicates that Omar will work to implement the change with the Massachusetts representative, Jim McGovern, and the Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, who stands to be the next Speaker of the House.

House Democrats' proposals also call for the creation of an independent diversity office to promote a workforce "representative of our members and the districts they represent", as well as the prohibition specificity of LGBT discrimination.

The House passed a rule in 1837 that none of its members could wear a hat on the floor during a session. The rule was subsequently amended to prohibit essentially all headgear, stating that "every member shall remain uncovered during sessions of the House".

The new class of Congress members will also include the first two women members of the Amerindian Congress, the first black member of the Massachusetts Congress and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, of New York, the The youngest woman elected to Congress.