On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
BARBARA MIKULSKIWhen it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
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I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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When you’re up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it’s looking right at you; it’s a different viewpoint.
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There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
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People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
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I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn’t get any better than that from here on.
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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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