Joining us today, senator to discuss your book. Thank you for having me. Im excited to be here. Host i wanted to start, your entire story has so many emotional movements on moments. As a congressional editor and love the portion where you say people tell me on the first editor to have a baby in office but now, the first to give birth. [laughter] but it tells you the average age for a senator to give birth in office we need more women senators and younger senators. Host the passages are fantastic but i hope we can have a candid conversation what that looks like on the personal level to be a very tradition bound institution. How awkward was that . Talk me through. You use the phrase with abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant it was through ivf. I was trying. We began having the conversations. The senate even then with democrats in the minority we were pretty evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. Senate rule says i cannot take Maternity Lea
Average age for a senator to give birth in office we need more women senators and younger senators. Host the passages are fantastic but i hope we can have a candid conversation what that looks like on the personal level to be a very tradition bound institution. How awkward was that . Talk me through. You use the phrase with abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant it was through ivf. I was trying. We began having the conversations. The senate even then with democrats in the minority we were pretty evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. Senate rule says i cannot take Maternity Leave i can introduce legislation or vote. I cannot even give birth in illinois i had to do in dc otherwise i would be stuck there. You cannot take a newborn baby on the airplane. From the beginning i knew we would have to work through a lot of issues including the senate rules. Theres no way for me to get on the floor to vote with my baby unless they change the rules.
History office. She was student Programs Coordinator for the maryland general assembly in annapolis, and im still kicking myself for not following up on her offer to tour the dome at the statehouse. Thats probably out of reach at this point because now shes in d. C. With the congressional research service. Were happy to have her right in the madison building down the street. Shes a regular contributor to our dome. The latest article she submitted was in an issue a couple years ago on bootlegging in the capital. Shes really into digging out hidden corners of the capitol. Now, ms. Rankin isnt a hidden anything. All of us know who she is. Shes got a statue and its precisely those kinds of figures in history that have the most to surprise us with, because we think we know who they are and what their legacy is. But maybe shell Share Today some new information with us that shes come across. So, help me welcome jane. Thank you, chuck. Its rally a great honor to be here. Ive had a lot of great
Beautiful dome of the Annapolis State house and thats probably out of reach at this point and so happy to have her right in the madison building down the street. Shes a regular Request Contributor to the Dome And Bootlegging in the capitol and shes really into digging out interesting little hidden corners of the capitol. Jeanette rankin isnt a hidden anything. Shes all of us know who she is. Shes got a statue and its precisely those kinds of figures in history that have the most to surprise us with because we think we know who they are and what their legacy is, but maybe Jane Today will share some new information with us so help me welcome jane. [ applause ] thank you, chuck. It is a great honor to be here and ive had a lot of great experiences with the capitol historical society and thank you lauren and charlotte was helpful, as well. I also appreciate that some of my current leagues are here and my boss jim is here with other people from my new office and people from my old office, H
Visitors are back, so you worry about people in a large group particularly indoors, who you are not really sure about if you dont know that they are vaccinated if you are not vaccinated including kids. And also in kids go to visit grandparents, if the grandparents are in your compromised, or have some sort of condition where they may not have been responding to the vaccine, you may want to be safer with the kids visiting and masks but again it depends on a Casebycase Basis and small is generally better than large. With the Positivity Rate hovering right around 1 1 2 now, do you think we will see a surge of cases following this Holiday Weekend . We are definitely going to see an uptick in cases. The question is by hopefully, a weather in much of the Bay Area, not rest of the bay, people will be more outdoors, even if you are not vaccinated, after gatherings are generally going to be fine, given the low levels of virus right now. In two weeks after july 4, if we will see an uptick in cas