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Popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although u. S. Politics began 2017 with some grim numbers, occupying less than 25 of government offices, we also witnessed a historic numbers of women pouring into the street in the way come Donald Trumps inauguration. Since then, we have seen a massive upsurge in the number of women coming forward to run for Political Office. Its the start of this year, more than the 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. That brings us to the Central Point of todays event. Where do we go from here. How do we make the most of this unique moment of political resistance and turn womens desire for office into electoral reality . We have to start by getting our facts straight. For too long t ....
Morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress and im Carmel Martin executive Vice President for policy at the action fund and thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. Weve arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months weve had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although women in us policy began 2017, its grim numbers occupying less than 25 percent of elected offices at all levels of government. We also witnessed a historic women led outpouring by progressives in ....
Event on womens leadership. We have arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months, we have had the first female candidate run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a virgin by a high margin. Some pretty grandma numbers of, occupying left and 25 of elected offices at all levels of avernment, we also witnessed historic outpouring after Donald Trumps election. We have seen a massive upsurge in the number of women coming forward to run for Political Office. Since the start of this year, more than 11 thousand women have a approach to emilys list in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. Centralngs us to the point of todays event. Where do we government here . How do we make a most of this unique ....
Good morning morning. Welcome to the center for American Progress action fund. I am the executive and really thank you so much for joining us today for an exciting event on womens leadership. We have arrived at a moment that has the potential to be a pivotal time for women in american politics. In the past six months we have had the first female candidate from a Major Political party run for the presidency of the United States and win the popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. With some pretty grim numbers occupying less than 25 of elected offices at all levels of government. We witnesses a women led of outpour and since then, we have seen a massive up surge in the number of women who were coming forward to run for Political Office. More than 11,0 ....
Testifying today before the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Attorney general Jeff Sessions denied any collusion between him and russian officials during the president ial campaign. He also answered questions about a private meeting in february with the president and then fbi director james comey. Senator richard burr of North Carolina chair is this two and a half hour hearing. And [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i called the hearing to orderore please attorney general sessions, appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today and thank you for your years of dedicated service as a member of this body and recent leadership at the department of justice. As i mentioned when the director appeared before us last week that his comm ....