Post by Logan on Jan 27, 2016 1:11:46 GMT -6
Post-blizzard, Sen. Murkowski notes that only women turned up to run the Senate
WASHINGTON - Something was a little different in the Senate on Tuesday morning. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski noticed it.
The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it was her job to handle the formalities of delaying Senate business until her colleagues could get back to work. After finishing that, she described what she saw.
"As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female."
Murkowski noted that she and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who was wielding the Senate gavel, hadn't planned the all-women session. It was, she said, just a coincidence.
Read more: www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/post-blizzard-sen-murkowski-notes-that-only-women-turned-up/article_66428698-c48c-11e5-992e-0f439f6298ce.html
WASHINGTON - Something was a little different in the Senate on Tuesday morning. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski noticed it.
The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it was her job to handle the formalities of delaying Senate business until her colleagues could get back to work. After finishing that, she described what she saw.
"As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female."
Murkowski noted that she and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who was wielding the Senate gavel, hadn't planned the all-women session. It was, she said, just a coincidence.
Read more: www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/post-blizzard-sen-murkowski-notes-that-only-women-turned-up/article_66428698-c48c-11e5-992e-0f439f6298ce.html