On Tuesday morning, a few days following the blizzard that all but paralyzed the nation’s capital, Sen. Lisa Murkowski looked around the Senate floor and made quite the observation.
“We came in this morning, looked around and thought, something is different this morning. Different in a good way, I might add,” Murkowski said Tuesday. “But something is genuinely different.”
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What was unusual was there were only women present, according to the Republican senator from Alaska. Along with her was Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, another state equipped to deal with wintry weather. They had “braved the elements,” Murkowski said proudly.









