In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating trailblazers like Maria and the progress she’s made uplifting women in Washington state and across the country…
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Making History:
1992
“The Year of the Woman”
Maria is elected to Congress
Patty Murray is elected to the Senate
with Carol Moseley Braun,
Dianne Feinstein,
and Barbara Boxer
(The first time 4 women were elected to the Senate in a single year!)
2000
Maria is elected to the Senate,
becoming the 3rd woman to defeat an incumbent senator
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Fighting for Women:
✔️Securing equal pay for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team
✔️Working with women entrepreneurs to grow more women-owned businesses
✔️Expanding the Violence Against Women Act to protect the most vulnerable women
✔️Passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to combat wage discrimination
✔️Leading the nation on paid family and medical leave
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