Mikulski Makes Case For More Women In The Senate

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Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) made the case for more women in the U.S. Senate in her speech in Charlotte Wednesday, and asked the audience to help the many women Senate candidates running in 2012. Mikulski spoke surrounded by several fellow female Democratic Senators. “[Women] work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.”

Mikulski singled out health care reform as an important improvement for women:

Nothing has done more to improve the day-to-day lives of America’s women than health care reform. Before health care reform, women could be charged 50 percent more for their health insurance than men; in nine states, victims of domestic violence were denied coverage; mammograms and other cancer tests could strain the family budgets, so some women had to go without. Millions of American families knew they were just one medical catastrophe away from financial disaster.

Mikulski, the longest-serving female legislator in history, was instrumental in getting preventative care provisions into the Affordable Care Act.

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