Four women on Capitol Hill will make history this year after being appointed to the four top positions on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, marking a first for women in Congress.
The high-profile committees will be overseen by Sens. Patty Murray and Susan Collins in the Senate and Reps. Kay Granger and Rosa DeLauro in the House. Murray and Granger are the respective chairwomen, while Collins and DeLauro serve as the ranking members."You are looking at the table with the four women,” DeLauro told NBC News. “Oftentimes people say, you know, ‘We need to have women at the table.’ Well, women are the table.
“It’s really a difficult time. We can make it through. But I’m absolutely convinced that we have to stand together,” Granger said. “We had to prove ourselves in every single room that we were just as capable, which is why maybe we’re better legislators,” Murray said, explaining that women are good communicators. “We speak English: We talk about child care, we talk about making sure that our food supply is safe in this country, we talk about making sure that you have a road that you can drive on to pick up your kids at school that's safe.
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