In a first, 2 rooms in U.S. Capitol named for women who served in the Senate
Margaret Chase Smith and Barbara A. Mikulski this month became the first women to have rooms in the U.S. Capitol named for them.
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Margaret Chase Smith and Barbara A. Mikulski this month became the first women to have rooms in the U.S. Capitol named for them.
Not until this month have any of the 540 rooms in the U.S. Capitol been officially named for women who served in the U.S. Senate.
The first woman joined Congress more than a century ago, but not now have any rooms in the U.S. Capitol been named for women Senators.
In a first, two rooms in the U.S. Capitol have been named for women who served in the Senate, 31 years after the House did so.