U.S. SENATOR: ONLY THE WOMEN SHOWED UP FOR WORK AFTER DC’S BLIZZARD [View all]

Last weekend’s blizzard froze the nation’s Northeast in its tracks. But as the snowfall subsided and the roads were plowed, people went back to school, went on with their daily lives, and as expected, returned to work.

Well, not everybody went back to work. Not surprisingly, members of Congress’s highest body, the Senate, didn’t show up following the hash winter conditions that blanketed the Capitol. Correction: only the women of the Capitol showed up for work.

"As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer [Senator Susan Collins] is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female. Now this was not orchestrated in any way shape or form. We came in this morning, looked around, and thought, “Something is different this morning, and different in a good way,” I might add. Something is genuinely different — and something is genuinely fabulous.

"Since the 111th Congress, which was sworn in in 2009, the average female senator submitted 96.31 bills, while the average male senator only submitted 70.72. Bills that were introduced by female senators also fared better, receiving an average of 9.10 cosponsors, while male senators received an average 5.94. Quorum also found that female senators’ bills made it out of committees more often, and were successfully enacted at a higher rate than those introduced by men."

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/u-s-senator-only-the-women-showed-up-for-work-after-dcs-blizzard/

Not really earth-shaking or illustrative, but still...