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Men Got Us Into The Shutdown, Women Got Us Out
Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) said on Wednesday afternoon that their female colleagues can take most of the credit for driving the compromise that is expected to temporarily reopen the U.S. government and raise the debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline.
"Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily from women in the Senate," McCain said after the bipartisan deal was announced.
Pryor said that people sometimes like to joke about women in leadership, but he is a huge fan of his female colleagues after watching them negotiate. "The truth is, women in the Senate is a good thing," he said. "We're all just glad they allowed us to tag along so we could see how it's done."
Following weeks of stagnation, The New York Times reported on Monday that a bipartisan group of women senators was playing a crucial role in opening discussions between Republicans and Democrats over how to move forward and reopen the government. Out of the 14 senators on the bipartisan committee that laid the framework for the debt deal, six were women. Susan Collins (R-Maine) started the group, and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) took part in negotiations.
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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/shutdown-women_n_4110268.html
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)justice1
(795 posts)Cha
(297,322 posts)thanks Tx
To the Women in the Senate then Who saved what would have been a lot more grief to come.
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)A Damn good change for the politics in this country to get more intelligent women in power,Maybe they could neuter a few of these teabaggers ( just kidding),But all levity aside I think that it would be great to see
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)They also noted that Patty Murray would be heading up the Budget Conference committee..
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Women Rule!
Thanks TX.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Now if somehow we could just get the women who vote for them to wake up and stop voting for them, we'd never have to worry about these douchebags every again.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)They're selfish arrogant children.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)Real men do not need to carry an assault rifle to prove their manhood, nor do they have to hold others down to prove their manhood.
They are spoiled little children with a terminal case of diaper rash.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)In the 113th Congress, the Democratic party has over 75% of the women in the House and 75% of the 20 women Senators.
New Orleans Strong
(212 posts)Messrs. McCain and Pryor "Have to admit" that even though - heck - "People like to joke about women in leadership", they maybe don't suck all that much? What KIND of people, esteemed Senators, like to joke about women in leadership? Not even an underhanded compliment. After what those Y chromosomes in both Houses have done to this country this week? Sinners in the hands of an angry God...
New Orleans Strong
(212 posts)I have Y chromosome.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)bloom
(11,635 posts)So very opposite from the white southern nutcake men (not that all men in the south are nutcakes, of course).
Amonester
(11,541 posts)munster69
(107 posts)Maybe we can borrow them, get more women in government
cmos_sue
(23 posts)not sure if I have to put something here..
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)The very first class in Feminism... a six week summer school "symposium" at a liberal arts college ... completed my BA degree requirements in 1971. Just so happened. Proud to be a Liberal Boomer.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)efhmc
(14,731 posts)mother of 2 and the gmother of 4, I can assure you I do not have and do not want (shudder) to have any balls, no matter what they are made of. Thanks anyway. Please can you find another analogy.
cmos_sue
(23 posts)Kudos to McCain (and the other guy?) for acknowledging the contributions made by these lady senators. You go girls!!!
efhmc
(14,731 posts)The females in the governing body mostly do make a great difference.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)efhmc
(14,731 posts)blue neen
(12,322 posts)It's too bad that we're not hearing more about it from the "liburl" media.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Senator Barbara Mikulski hosts a dinner every month for ALL of the 20 female U.S. Senators.
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... and they still meet monthly for off-the-record dinners, which Mikulski organizes.
In fact, in these polarizing political times, the dinners are one of the last bastions of bipartisanship.
"It's a very important way for us to know each other as people," she says.
Despite partisan differences, Mikulski has used the dinners to help the female senators forge relationships, which she says help them understand each other across party and regional lines when it comes to policy.
"We do know each other and we have developed real affection and respect for one another," she says.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/27/mikulski.senate/index.html?hpt=C1
The women of the Senate meet about once every six weeks for a dinner on Capitol Hill, organized by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), known as "the dean" of the female senators. Mikulski is a trailblazer for female senators: she is the longest-serving woman in Congress and this year became the first-ever female head of the powerful Appropriations Committee.
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McCaskill credits Mikulski's dinners with helping break some of the stalemate that has come to define Congress.
"We have a very, very respected rule that what we talk about there never leaves the room," McCaskill said. "So these are pretty free-wheeling discussions, and we have averted some legislative logjams by some of our discussions at those dinners. I think we're all determined to use those opportunities to try to move things along."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/women-senators-113th-congress_n_2405299.html
More about the female U.S. Senators' dinners on the link below
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/politics/mikulski-history/index.html
PATXgirl
(192 posts)Throwing temper tantrums.
a kennedy
(29,673 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)I have never seen the House Democrats work that well as a group. She is tough and smart.