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Breast Cancer Awareness: Know the risks, know your rights

Breast Cancer Awareness: Know the risks, know your rights

By Karyn Bruggeman on 10/17/2011 @ 08:05 AM

Tags: Why Women, Women leaders, Shelley Berkley, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Tammy Baldwin, Dianne Feinstein, Diana DeGette, Barbara Mikulski, Rosa DeLauro, Kathleen Sebelius

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of early breast cancer detection, because early detection-as with any cancer- plays a huge role in increasing ones chance of survival. One in eight women will be affected by breast cancer in their lifetimes, a ratio that has been on the rise over the past few decades.

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Celebrate the Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by Pledging to Get Women to the Polls in 2012

Celebrate the Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by Pledging to Get Women to the Polls in 2012

By Sarah Burris on 08/26/2011 @ 08:45 AM

Tags: Women's Rights, Barbara Mikulski

Women finally earned the right to vote 91 years ago today - after 72 years of largely unappreciated, back-breaking, work. It took another 66 years before we helped elect the first Democratic Senator in her own right - today Barbara Mikulski is the longest serving female Senator. And she shares the chamber with 11 other Democratic women.

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Cost of Contraception? Priceless.

Cost of Contraception? Priceless.

By Jamie Haynes on 08/01/2011 @ 05:48 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Choice, Women's Rights

During last year's health care debate, we found out that simply being a woman was treated as a pre-existing condition by insurance providers. But despite this outrageous and disturbing discovery, EMILY's List alums like Sen. Barbara Mikulski were there leading the fight to ensure women would be treated equally and fairly in the new reform legislation. Sen. Mikulski introduced an amendment that created an independent commission to come up with recommendations for preventative measures that insurers should provide to specifically aide women at all stages of life.

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23 cents to go: working to close the gender wage gap

23 cents to go: working to close the gender wage gap

By Amy Mesner and Savannah Fitz on 06/13/2011 @ 04:35 PM

Tags: Economy, Barbara Mikulski, Rosa DeLauro

On the 48th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, women still only make 77 cents on the male dollar. This fact was brought to our attention in a discussion we attended recently sponsored by EMILY’s List’s Senator Barbara Mikulski and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro on pay equity.

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Honoring the Dean

Honoring the Dean

By Hilary Nachem on 05/20/2011 @ 02:53 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, MD-Sen

Thanks to her determination, ability to organize, and the support that she received from this network of activists around the country, she made it to the Senate and continues to return year after year. We are all indebted to the work that she has done, and for that we honor her with the first of its kind We Are EMILY award.

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EMILY’s List women say it best: you seriously want to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood?

EMILY’s List women say it best: you seriously want to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood?

By Lisa McIntire on 04/07/2011 @ 05:03 PM

Tags: GOP Opponents, Reproductive Rights, Patty Murray, Claire McCaskill, Barbara Boxer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Terri Sewell, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Mikulski

Faced with increasingly likelihood of a government shutdown, EMILY’s List women in Congress are doing what they do best – representing our interests by telling it like it is. Here’s what our advocates have to say about Republican brinksmanship over funding Planned Parenthood, which has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility and everything to do with an anti-woman agenda.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom on women in power & the media

Jennifer Siebel Newsom on women in power & the media

By Lisa McIntire on 02/18/2011 @ 01:50 PM

Tags: Sexism, Women leaders, Why Women, Amy Klobuchar, Barbara Mikulski, Dianne Feinstein

At the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College last week, I was thrilled to watch the compelling new documentary called "Miss Representation," which addresses the many problems of our media's portrayals of women, including women in leadership. I had the chance to speak with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who wrote and directed the film.

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Sen. Mikulski and women senators lead the call for civility

Sen. Mikulski and women senators lead the call for civility

By Hilary Nachem on 02/05/2011 @ 02:40 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Stand Up to Serve

Mikulski started organizing casual events where the women could get together with "no staff, no memos, no leaks and no men"several years ago, in cooperation with her colleague (and fellow EMILY's List candidate) Sen. Claire McCaskill. Through their meetings and friendships, they have cultivated a space where the women of the Senate feel comfortable debating issues despite difference of opinion. They may not always agree on the policy choices, but their respect for a civil political discourse manifests on the Senate floor and even on the Sunday shows.

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A teachable EMILY's List moment

A teachable EMILY's List moment

By Jeanne Duncan on 01/28/2011 @ 12:40 PM

Tags: Stand Up to Serve, Gwen Moore, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski

Because, Alice, the entire reason EMILY’s List exists is to make it possible for women — rich, poor, black, white, young, mature, et al — to raise the money they need to run viable, winning campaigns for office. And we have a long list of successful candidates — most of them women of ordinary means — to prove it.

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Women politicians' thoughts on serving

Women politicians' thoughts on serving

By Lisa McIntire on 01/26/2011 @ 02:55 PM

Tags: Stand Up to Serve, Kirsten Gillibrand, Barbara Mikulski, Betty Sutton, Dianne Feinstein, Gwen Moore

When searching for reasons and inspiration for ways to serve, there’s no better place to look than some of EMILY’s List’s women politicians. Here’s some excellent food for thought about service from our constellation of stars.

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Barbara Mikulski becomes longest serving woman in Senate history

Barbara Mikulski becomes longest serving woman in Senate history

By Hilary Nachem on 01/05/2011 @ 09:27 AM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senate

Senator Barbara Mikulski is known amongst her colleagues as the "Dean" of Senate women. She was the first Democratic woman elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right – her groundbreaking campaign was our first, the inspiration for EMILY's List back in 1985. The EMILY's List community has stood with Sen. Mikulski for over two decades. She has fought for us time and time again -- and we've done the same for her, most recently supporting her successful reelection this past November.

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Photos: 25th Anniversary Event

Photos: 25th Anniversary Event

By Emily on 05/03/2010 @ 10:15 AM

Tags: 25th Anniversary, Ellen Malcolm, Stephanie Schriock, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Mikulski, Kirsten Gillibrand

We got some great pictures at our 25th Anniversary event, featuring event speakers Senators Barbara Mikulski and Kirsten Gillibrand, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cherelle Parker, EMILY's List founder and Board Chair Ellen Malcolm, and EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock.

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Health care heroes and the road ahead

Health care heroes and the road ahead

By Emily on 03/22/2010 @ 05:10 PM

Tags: Women's rights, 2010 Elections, Health care, Mary Jo Kilroy, Betsy Markey, Suzanne Kosmas, Dina Titus, Diana DeGette, Rosa DeLauro, Louise Slaughter, Patty Murray, Barbara Mikulski

As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said last night, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition in America!

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Video: Mikulski on health care reform and women

Video: Mikulski on health care reform and women

By Emily on 03/22/2010 @ 05:10 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, US Senate, Health Care, Women's Rights

As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said last night, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition in America!

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Mikulski decries Nelson amendment as

Mikulski decries Nelson amendment as "insulting, humiliating"

By Emily on 12/08/2009 @ 12:45 PM

Tags: Stop Stupak, Stupak-Pitts Amendment, Women's Rights, US Senate, Barbara Mikulski

We've heard from plenty of women who are fired up about the Stupak and Nelson amendments in the House and Senate that would deny millions of women access to safe, affordable reproductive care.

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Senate passes Mikulski's women's health amendment

Senate passes Mikulski's women's health amendment

By Emily on 12/03/2009 @ 01:11 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Health Care, US Senate

Exciting news from Capitol Hill today!

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Senator Mikulski introduces amendment to provide critical health care for women

Senator Mikulski introduces amendment to provide critical health care for women

By Emily on 12/01/2009 @ 06:52 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Health Care, US Senate

In the midst of anti-choice attacks in Congress, it's nice to know that the Democratic women in the Senate have our backs.

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Marylanders rate Mikulski as top politician

Marylanders rate Mikulski as top politician

By Emily on 11/06/2009 @ 05:28 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, MD-Sen, US Senate, 2010 Elections

Because we never miss an opportunity to brag on one of our own...

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Insurance company to applicant: Get sterilized

Insurance company to applicant: Get sterilized

By Emily on 10/16/2009 @ 02:25 PM

Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Health Care, Women's Rights, US Senate

We were shocked to learn about a Senate hearing yesterday, during which a witness testified that a prospective insurer denied her application for coverage because she'd had a C-section.

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Politico: Women senators paving the way

Politico: Women senators paving the way

By Emily on 10/09/2009 @ 05:40 PM

Tags: US Senate, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, Jeanne Shaheen, Kay Hagan

Blazing the trail. Breaking new ground. Making history.

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