Over 50 years ago, two female lawmakers led a congressional committee for the first time: the House Select Committee on the Beauty Shop. This year, women will hold the top positions on the House and Senate Appropriations committees for the first time.
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In the Senate, Washington Democrat Patty Murray is the new Appropriations Committee chairwoman, while Maine Republican Susan Collins is the ranking member. They are taking over from two longtimeIn the House, Texas Republican Kay Granger is the new Appropriations Committee chairwoman, while Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro, the panel’s past chair, is serving as ranking member.In the 1970s, “there were two women who headed up a committee, and the committee was on the House beauty salon.
Granger, a defense hawk, called that a nonstarter. The last time such defense cuts were proposed, Granger said her response to fellow Republicans was:"You can’t do that. If you do that, you’ll see me on every television show, every newspaper, because we can’t do that, we can’t. Those cuts are enormous.", first arrived in the Senate in 1997, she was ranked No. 99 out of 100 members in seniority.
“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,” Murray said. But as a 14-year House Appropriations staffer, she also intimately knows each of the top appropriators and recognizes the significance of this glass-ceiling-shattering moment. Paraphrasing her boss Biden, she says, it’s a“That’s huge. I came to this town in the summer of 2001, and men held every one of those budget jobs, including my own, so that was not representative of the way this country looks,” Young said in an interview in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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