[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
BARBARA MIKULSKIHis great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that’s what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
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I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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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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College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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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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Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.
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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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When 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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