'20 Female Senators Sworn in on Capitol Hill'‏

http://youtu.be/O8nJp2sT_oc

On Thursday, January 3, 2013, the brand-new 113th Congress began.

In the U.S. Senate, there is now a record of 20 female representatives. These ladies are: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski; California's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer; Louisiana's Mary Landrieu; Maine's Susan Collins; Maryland's Barbara Mikulski; Michigan's Debbie Stabenow; Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar; Missouri's Claire McCaskill; New Hampshire's Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte; New York's Kirsten Gillibrand; North Carolina's Kay Hagan; and Washington's Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. New members are: Hawaii's Mazie Hirono; Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren; Nebraska's Deb Fischer; North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp; and Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin.

In last year's elections, Warren unseated Scott Brown for the seat which was previously held by Ted Kennedy. Fischer was also a pickup for her party, after the seat was vacated by then-retiring Ben Nelson.

Mikulski is the longest-tenured woman in either house of Congress. (Now at age 76, Mikulski was first elected in 1986.)

On ABC News' broadcast, Diane Sawyer sat down with these female Senators for a discussion that is on video for approximately five mintues. It's pretty interesting.

Great...

Make it 50 and we'll call it a fair world.

This is a good thing. When you balance the gender of government, you will fundamentally change how it operates for the better. Male dominated government of privilege can do tremendous damage to a government.

I am proud of my female senator, Maria Cantwell. I have a lot of respect for that woman.

Thank you for the video. That was fun to watch. :)

My home state of NH has all four of its Congressional seats held by females, and the gov is female also.

...and one of those twenty is gay!

The first openly-gay Senator in American history.

Elizabeth Warren will make a big impact, hopefully.
Good luck to Tammy Baldwin too.

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Originally Posted by jft245

My home state of NH has all four of its Congressional seats held by females, and the gov is female also.

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New Hampshire made history effective with the 2012 elections. All key state and federal offices are now held by women. The first state in the nation to achieve this.

Governor • Maggie Hassan [2012]
U.S. Senate • Jeanne Shaheen [2008]
U.S. Senate • Kelly Ayotte [2010]
N.H. #01 • Carol Shea–Porter [2012; pickup and returned]
N.H. #02 • Ann Kuster [2012; pickup]

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Originally Posted by CoolBlue71

http://youtu.be/O8nJp2sT_oc

On Thursday, January 3, 2013, the brand-new 113th Congress began.

In the U.S. Senate, there is now a record of 20 female representatives. These ladies are: Alaska's Lisa Murkowski; California's Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer; Louisiana's Mary Landrieu; Maine's Susan Collins; Maryland's Barbara Mikulski; Michigan's Debbie Stabenow; Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar; Missouri's Claire McCaskill; New Hampshire's Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte; New York's Kirsten Gillibrand; North Carolina's Kay Hagan; and Washington's Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. New members are: Hawaii's Mazie Hirono; Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren; Nebraska's Deb Fischer; North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp; and Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin.

In last year's elections, Warren unseated Scott Brown for the seat which was previously held by Ted Kennedy. Fischer was also a pickup for her party, after the seat was vacated by then-retiring Ben Nelson.

Mikulski is the longest-tenured woman in either house of Congress. (Now at age 76, Mikulski was first elected in 1986.)

On ABC News' broadcast, Diane Sawyer sat down with these female Senators for a discussion that is on video for approximately five mintues. It's pretty interesting.

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"Verrrrry interesting".
Thanks.

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I am pretty much a fanboi for Elizabeth Warren.

Interesting to watch...have they shown part two yet?

I have supported Barbara Boxer for years now...most times she has run without any serious competition but last time against Carly Fiorina I ended up donating money to her weekly. Her campaign knew how to get the $$$$...I was cracking up because I knew they were manipulating me and I was happy about it. They sent me photos of Sarah Palin alongside Fiorina and instant fear overcame me and I hit the DONATE NOW button within 10 seconds.

It's interesting to see this, given an article I read several years ago which asserted two things about having women in government: that governments with a high number of women involved spend more per capita, especially on social programs; and that governments with a high number of women suffer less from factional blocking of getting things done.
We could certainly use a dose of the latter.

And on that notion, it's too bad we don't have a hundred women in the House.

we need more women in govt.

actually we need better people in govt.

women or men

nancy pelosi is a woman - she's awful

harry reid is a man - he's awful

awful is awful

good is good

this is not a barack obama for president thingy

BOOM

(warning - rank misogyny and hyperbole ahead - the sensitive should look away immediately)

Texas Nominates Cruz to be the female Senator from Texas - because he's a little bitch!