Amy Klobuchar: In 230 years, not a single room in the Senate has been named for a woman. Last week

[demmiblue]

In 230 years, not a single room in the Senate has been named for a woman. Last week @RoyBlunt and I changed that.

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Two rooms with historic view: After 230 years, women’s names adorn Senate rooms

Sen. Amy Klobuchar noticed right away as the male senators glanced around, wondering how their bipartisan prayer breakfast meeting room had all these pictures of women, powerful women.

Where, they wondered, did all this come from?

“Well, this is the Barbara Mikulski room now,” the Democrat from Minnesota told them.

For the first time in more than 230 years of Senate history, two rooms were formally named last week in honor of women: Mikulski (D-Md.), who retired at the end of 2016 as the longest-serving female senator, and the late Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine), the first woman to win election to the House and the Senate, and who stood up to McCarthyism in the 1950s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/16/senate-rooms-women-names/

I spy one of my favs... the Shirley Chisholm portrait by Kadir Nelson:

[badhair77]

1. It's about time. Good job.

[niyad]

2. wayyyyyy past time. Thnk you, Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Blunt.

Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[Deuxcents]

3. 👏

Plenty of rooms for more powerful women to be honored.

[brer cat]

4. Excellent. It's never too late to correct a wrong.

[CrackityJones75]

12. at first I read that as correct a wing

which would be cool too

[brer cat]

13. Crazy eyes can be entertaining. lol

[Rhiannon12866]

5. K&R! Well deserved and long past time!

[Wounded Bear]

6. K & R...nt

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Mikulski certainly deserved the honor!

She was a pillar in there!

Her swan song remarks 6 years ago -

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Barbara Mikulski
@SenatorBarb
Watch my remarks on the Senate floor thanking the people of Maryland for the opportunity to serve.
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Mikulski Delivers Summing Up Speech on Senate Floor
On Wednesday, December 7, 2016, U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) spoke on the Senate floor summing up her service in the United States Congress on be...
12:34 PM · Dec 16, 2016

[FakeNoose]

8. K & R And thank you Amy Klobuchar!

Barbara Mikulski and Margaret Chase Smith are 2 of our finest sheroes.

Maybe someday there will be an Amy Klobuchar room?

[3catwoman3]

9. An Amy Klobuchar room would certainly...

...be very appropriate.

[UTUSN]

10. Amy!

[NCLefty]

11. Shameful to wait so long.

[KS Toronado]

14. Do rooms need to be named after former Congress members?

If not, I vote for Harriet Tubman. GOTV

[calimary]

15. We could also have a Hillary Rodham Clinton room.

After all, she WAS a United States Senator AND ALSO the first female major party candidate for
President.