Do or do not. There is no try.
-Senator Barbara Mikulski’s favorite Yoda quote.
#EMILYsList30 Announcement: We’re excited to have Senator Barbara Mikulski at our 30th Anniversary Gala!
Cool! Check out the inside of Barbara Mikulski’s Senate office. “Mikulski’s hideaway is an unmarked room accessed by corridors and staircases reminiscent of the ones that appear and disappear at Hogwarts.”
Women On Capitol Hill Reach Across Party Lines To Get Things Done
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Ellen Malcolm ranks up there with Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, because she created a social movement.
Senator Barbara Mikulski on the founder of EMILY’s List
Barbara’s Story
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is the longest serving woman in the U.S. Senate. So we can count on her to recount the changes that Congress has gone through as more and more women take office.
In her speech to her alma mater, University of Minnesota Mankato, EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock dropped some terrifying knowledge: When Senator Mikulski was first elected to the Senate, there was no women’s bathroom.
NO. WOMEN’S. BATHROOM.
If she needed to use the restroom, Senator Mikulski had to walk all the way back to her office building.
When a woman is elected, she should have access to a bathroom in the Senate, as her male peers do. Right?
Apparently not. Turns out “she had to ask them to build her a bathroom.”
As Stephanie put it best: “That was in 1986. We had MTV before we had a women’s bathroom in the Senate.”
Finally, Senator Mikulski got her bathroom.
And now, the women of the Senate had made history by having the first ever traffic jam in line for the women’s bathroom, so much that the restroom has to be expanded to accommodate the record number of women.
Cheers to progress, and here’s to hoping we outgrow the newly improved bathroom very soon!
