Ex-US Rep. Nita Lowey, a New York Democrat who chaired powerful House Appropriations Committee, dies
Source: AP
Updated 2:10 PM EDT, March 16, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87.
Lowey’s family, in a statement shared by the Westchester County Democratic Committee, said she died Saturday after battling metastatic breast cancer with the “same tenacity and strength that she fought throughout her 32-year career in Congress for women, children and families.”
The family said she passed away peacefully in her home in Harrison, New York, surrounded by her husband, children and grandchildren. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat who served with Lowey in Congress, ordered flags flown at half-staff Sunday through Monday in honor of her former colleague.
“A public servant in the truest sense, she was guided by the Jewish core value of ‘Tikkun Olam,’ repairing the world,” the family’s statement read. “She was an indefatigable fighter and worked across the aisle to deliver results for her constituents and all Americans.”
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She opted not to run for re-election in 2020.
R.I.P. for this long-serving NY Rep. (last district was for NY-17)
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She was my Congressional rep for many years (I volunteered on her 1988 campaign and others since)
