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Room for mothers to breastfeed, except for ones who have less than 50 employees. i want to bring in two women who have lived out these dilemmas. hannah pingry and her daughter, sheila pingre. i want to talk about the relationship between the kinds of policies we see and the social contract we which is very incomplete in how it responds to mothers and children and the fact that we don't have more mothers as politicians. it's a basic brute democratic fact of who we elect to represent us in state houses and in congress. >> sure, well i mean first of all, most people probably understand this, ther...

♪ chances are ♪ 'cuz i wear a silly grin ♪ the moment you come into view ♪ congresswoman pingree, i want you to talk about how, how you got into politics. my understanding is that hannah played a role in it. but also when i think about right now, going through this myself, i have a five and a half-month-old daughter and people in my group, moms taken maternity leave, re-entering the workforce and me as a dad, figuring out time constraints, being present in my daughter's life and doing my job, politics seems like a 24-hour commitment. and i think there are social expectations of mothe...

Say, maybe i could do this. in the end, i, just as you said, i've been forced to spend a lot of time away from home. sometimes i found i missed my kids more than they missed me because they were busy with their own lives. >> hannah? >> i was 14 years old, she wasn't changing diapers and my brother was a little bit younger, but you know, the three of us were thrilled for our mom, we got to go knock on doors and be involved in her campaign. which probably is how i got the political bug and why i got so involved in politics today. for me it was amazing to have a mom as a political role model. tha...

the week, towards a real nanny state. there are two big differences between last mother's day and this one. one political, the other personal. the political difference is not only does this mother's day take place during an election year, it hits a few weeks after motherhood, the value of mothers and women's work more broadly were at the center of a news cycle. hoping to revive this theme ann romney wrote an op-ed called three seasons of motherhood. it extolls the crown of glory that all mothers wear. the personal difference for me of course is the birth of my daughter. today i'll be...

the mother of my child. so much about the birth of one's first child is vivid and indelible. almost as if it happened in another country you briefly visited and might go back to. there's one moment that stuck with me that i think about a lot in the context of our national political conversation about mothers and children and social opportunity and hard work. it's the terrifying surreal moment when you leave the hospital. crossing the threshold into the fresh air, bearing this tiny creature toward a waiting car and you think, this is it. there's no one there to say good-bye or to, do ...