We Are Inspired By…Accomplished Women Top row, left to right: Tammy Baldwin, Senator-elect (D-WI), first openly gay person elected to the Senate; Mazie Hironi, Senator-elect (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar, Senator (D-MI); Middle row: Claire McCaskill, Senator (D-MO), defeated Todd Akin; Diane Feinstein, Senator (D-CA); Debbie Stabenow, Senator (D-MI); Bottom row: Elizabeth Warren, Senator-elect (D-MA); Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator (D-NY); and Tammy Duckworth, D-U.S. Representative-elect for Illinois’s 8th congressional district, defeated Tea Partier Joe Walsh, who criticized her for referencing her military service in the campaign (she lost both legs in the Iraq war).
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