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.
Thank you for joining us Today Senator to discuss your book. Im excited to be here. Thank you for having me. Your entire Life Story F is incredibly moving with so many emotional movements on moments but on a lighter note i love the portion of the book where you say people tell me i am the first senator to have a baby while in office. No i am the first senator to give birth. Man have been having babies for years. The average age is 70 its hard for a woman we need more women senators. Absolutely. Im hoping you and i can have a candid conversation what that was like onge a personal level so the senate is tradition bound institution. How awkward was that talking through . And thank you said to whip out abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant, i was going through ivf but as soon as we were successful we began to have the conversations. Even then democrats in the minority we were evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. I cannot take Maternity Leav
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. That was almost a ninemonth l
That im the first senator to have a baby while in office. No, im the first senator to give birth in office. [laughter] guest it tells you when the average age is something like 70, its hard for a senator to give birth. We need more younger senators and more women senators. Host absolutely. So, you, the passages in the book on this are fantastic, but im hoping you and i can have a candid conversation about what that was like on a personal level. We all know, us more than others, the senate is a very traditionbound institution. How awkward was that talking through, you know, im not going i think you actually used the phrase without a breast on the senate floor. [laughter] guest well, as soon as i became pregnant, i mean, i got pregnant through ivf, that was fine, but as soon as we were successful, we began having the conversations. Because remember, the senate was even then when democrats were in the minority, we were pretty evenly divided. I knew that we would need every single vote, so