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CK_John

(10,005 posts)
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 12:51 AM Aug 2013

I think Sen Warren is having a hard time adjusting. Going from a highly intellectual environment to

the senate must be like watching a bocce ball game in the park, just a bunch of old guys passing time.

I hope she doesn't quit and run for President. She needs to stop hanging around with Bernie and start learning how to get things done.

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I think Sen Warren is having a hard time adjusting. Going from a highly intellectual environment to (Original Post) CK_John Aug 2013 OP
You got the liberal-bashing bases covered with this one. morningfog Aug 2013 #1
You think? senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #2
There are now 20 female U.S. Senators - 16 democrats and 4 republicans Tx4obama Aug 2013 #3
Has she attended any of those diners? CK_John Aug 2013 #5
I don't know for sure, but my guess is that she has since all the female senators are invited Tx4obama Aug 2013 #6
Do we need more Democrats willing to comprise with people who take pride in being wrong? pa28 Aug 2013 #4

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
3. There are now 20 female U.S. Senators - 16 democrats and 4 republicans
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 01:16 AM
Aug 2013

1) Murkoswki-R (AK)
2) Boxer-D (CA)
3) Feinstein-D (CA)
4) Hirino-D (HI)
5) Landrieu-D (LA)
6) Collins-R (ME)
7) Mikulski-D (MD)
8) Warren-D (MA)
9) Stabenow-D (MI)
10) Klobuchar-D (MN)
11) McCaskill-D (MO)
12) Fischer-R (NE)
13) Ayotte-R (NH)
14) Shaheen-D (NH)
15) Gillibrand-D (NY)
16) Hagan-D (NC)
17) Heitkamp-D (ND)
18) Cantwell-D (WA)
19) Murray-D (WA)
20) Baldwin-D (WI)


I think that Senator Warren has probably also been hanging out with the female senators listed above.

Senator Barbara Mikulski hosts a dinner every month for ALL of the female U.S. Senators.


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... and they still meet monthly for off-the-record dinners, which Mikulski organizes.

In fact, in these polarizing political times, the dinners are one of the last bastions of bipartisanship.

"It's a very important way for us to know each other as people," she says.

Despite partisan differences, Mikulski has used the dinners to help the female senators forge relationships, which she says help them understand each other across party and regional lines when it comes to policy.

"We do know each other and we have developed real affection and respect for one another," she says.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/27/mikulski.senate/index.html?hpt=C1



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The women of the Senate meet about once every six weeks for a dinner on Capitol Hill, organized by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), known as "the dean" of the female senators. Mikulski is a trailblazer for female senators: she is the longest-serving woman in Congress and this year became the first-ever female head of the powerful Appropriations Committee.

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McCaskill credits Mikulski's dinners with helping break some of the stalemate that has come to define Congress.

"We have a very, very respected rule that what we talk about there never leaves the room," McCaskill said. "So these are pretty free-wheeling discussions, and we have averted some legislative logjams by some of our discussions at those dinners. I think we're all determined to use those opportunities to try to move things along."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/women-senators-113th-congress_n_2405299.html



More about the female U.S. Senators' dinners on the link below

Mikulski makes history while creating 'zone of civility' for Senate women

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/politics/mikulski-history/index.html



Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
6. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that she has since all the female senators are invited
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 01:31 AM
Aug 2013

If she hasn't then she is missing out.



pa28

(6,145 posts)
4. Do we need more Democrats willing to comprise with people who take pride in being wrong?
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 01:17 AM
Aug 2013

Being half wrong is not "getting things done" it's just being half wrong.

Warren is doing just fine.

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