As problems go, this is a good one to have: after last week’s election, a record 20 women will serve in the U.S. Senate–where the ladies’ restroom has only two stalls. At the Washington Ideas Forum on Wednesday, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar told the audience, “For the first time, there was a traffic jam in the Senate women’s bathroom. There were five of us in there, and there are only two stalls.”
She tweeted the event:
New senators here. W/ 20 women we had our first-ever in U.S. history traffic jam in women senators’ restroom. #somerecordsmustbebroken
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) November 14, 2012
The Minnesota Senator added, “It’s wonderful. There has been a group of us, 17, that has dinner every other month in the Strom Thurmond room, which is kind of funny.”
Senator Klobuchar wasn’t the only one who’s been dealing with multiple run-ins in the ladies’ room. Senator Claire McCaskill first met newly elected Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Deb Fischer of Nebraska, who are in town for orientation this week, in the women’s bathroom. She tweeted about her encounter on Thursday.









