a history lesson
Against that backdrop, the private gatherings among the sisterhood are a source of both power and perspective. They occur every few weeks or months, depending on the need. Venues include the Senators’ homes—and occasionally the unlikely confines of the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond Room, a space named for one of the chamber’s most notorious womanizers. “We started the dinners 20 years ago on the idea that there has to be a zone of civility,” says Mikulski. Once a year the group also dines with the female Supreme Court Justices. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Select Committee on Intelligence, holds regular dinners for women in the national-security world. Even the female chiefs of staff and communications directors have started regular get-togethers of their own.In April the Senate women breached their no-outsider rule by agreeing to dine at the White House with President Obama. Going around the table, California Senator Barbara Boxer remarked that 100 years ago they’d have been meeting outside the White House gates to demand the right to vote. (“A hundred years ago, I’d have been serving you,” Obama replied.)
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This excerpt is from a TIME Magazine article about the adults in Washington being women. The interaction between Sen. Boxer and President Obama stood out to me. You can read the rest of the piece here
http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/16/women-are-the-only-adults-left-in-washington/
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/17/a-history-lesson/
How far we have come, yet a long road is still ahead of us. The road we have traveled, our history.
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Still. A good article.
That's me, a real patriot. 
sure our country pays its bills, the world economy doesn't collapse, the Furloughed workers get back to work so our Smart Government can get up and running for We The People. And, on a personal note I'll thank them for the millions and millions of us who will be getting our SS checks(IOW our Lifelines)in November.
Let's send another woman to the Senate.. A Democrat, Allison L Grimes in Kentucky, who went up 2% more in the polls than mitch mcconnell with the republicon shutdown crisis.
to our Women Leaders who get the job done... and to President Obama who has no problem with women leaders.
mahalo for your OP she.. glad Time put it out and TOD highlighted it~
"California Senator Barbara Boxer remarked that 100 years ago they’d have been meeting outside the White House gates to demand the right to vote. (“A hundred years ago, I’d have been serving you,” Obama replied."
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/16/leaders/
100 years ago it was women's suffrage, demanding our right to vote. Obama, he would only been the butler. We have come far yet we are far from done in this fight.
I agree Grimes (D) Kentucky for Senate. Katherine Clark (D) Mass for Congress. More to come I hope.
Thanks again for the great picture~ Moving America Forward.
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