Lesbian.com : Connecting lesbians worldwide | women in politics https://www.lesbian.com Connecting lesbians worldwide Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:23:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A binder full of 20 women Senators https://www.lesbian.com/a-binder-full-of-20-women-senators/ https://www.lesbian.com/a-binder-full-of-20-women-senators/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:08:58 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=7805 With the election of five new female Senators the 113th Congress will include more female Senators than at any other time in history.

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]]> Women Senators 2012BY JUDY MOLLAND
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The election on Tuesday of five new women to the U.S. Senate, four of them Democrats, means that the 113th Congress will have 20 female senators, the most ever in U.S. history.

There has been a steady increase in the number of women in the Senate, but this was expected to change this year when Republican Senators Kay Bailey Hutchinson (Texas) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) retire.

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