believerrer of one size fits all. i have always considered myself to be a rational independent their. so i don't know where i fall in that landscape on the climate or the temperature, but i'm a regular person that came through and was born in my district and went to school in my district and created in my district and i know i'm going to die and get buried in my district. my job and my voting card is owned by the people of northeast pennsylvania. >> what do you like. >> ran two marathons. we ran the new york city marathon. beaches are my worst vacation because i'm not a person to sit still and idle. i used to golf. i only played four rounds of golf in the last 15 months since

we ventured into the campaign. but i love being part of my community. we went to a par af medic fundraiser for one of our emergency responders who fell ill. but just being home. >> you are 34 years old. >> i am. >> longer term fans? >> i came from butler street in wyoming, pennsylvania and representing his family's home that we call home for five generations. i focus here. >> emily randall is more than one of 60 new members. she sterved in the washington senate and talks about her career which includes work as a community organizer. >> i work in nonprofit health

care and building community support for expanding health care access for kids, for women, lgbtq folks. i worked for planned parenthood and ran for office in 2018. >> you were born in seattle area. what was it like growing up there, who were your key influencer? >> i grew up in the house that my mom grew up in. i'm the first in my family to go to college. my role models my family that worked in the trades. they were my indicators and faith leaders. my grandma was a hospital health keeper and moon lighter.

at that time she spoke spanish and made sure they knew what they needed to know from a doctor. and that taking care of your neighbors no matter what. >> did you hear politics being discussed growing up? >> my dad is republican and my mom is a democrat. we had vibrant kitchen table conversations. but i didn't really know my elected leaders. i didn't really think that i was going to run for office some day but i wanted to give back. >> were you always a democrat? >> no. i have a sister who has born with koment flex disabilities

when i was 7. my mom jokes now but her pregnancy is the only one that was planned. and olivia had gsh born with severe disabilities and the twin died, my doctor encouraged her to have an abortion and wasn't the right choice for her and made me -- i was -- didn't identify pro-choice and i felt my sister's life was just as important. as i got older and i met pearce who became pregnant unexpectedly, you hear supposer about folks are faced with. i realize that what bothers me as a young person that someone

was trying to impress an idea on my mom. and so now i have worked on really strong abortion protections in the state of >> i want to the ask you about your experience in the state senate. was from a specific moment that you said i'm going to run for office. >> the first time? yeah, i was at my college campus at wellsly college after being in nashua, new hampshire with planned parenthood action fund and we were waiting for the election results, 2016 and it was like 1:30 in the morning. east coast time and i knew that

the candidate i had fought for had lost and knew that the trump administration was going to come for medicaid, come for the affordable care act, come for lgbtq rights and the pell grant and education support that had made the difference for me and the people they care about and i knew that i had to do more and that night is when i decided to run for the state senate in hawaii home community. >> how many years did you work with planned parenthood? >> six years. i worked on medicaid expansion for postpartum parents and for immigrants. i also worked a lot on education and opportunity. as a first-generation college i would worked on access to affordable four-year degrees and

i spent a lot of time also working on transportation and infrastructure, which was new for me. i took a bus sometimes and i drove by car but i wasn't an expert in transportation and then got the chance to negotiate washington's transportation package that invests in roads and bridges and all sorts of things. >> you started making news back home by being one of the two lgbtq women in the state snap. how has that laid an -- for you? >> claire and i were elected the same year. i think it testified to the caucus that there were some gaps. you know it matters that we bring our voices and our neighbors' voices with us into the halls of power.

because we get to shape legislation, whether through amendment or just educating our colleagues about the way we talk about community that makes folks in community feel more seen and heard and respected. we passed a lot of lgbtq protections in the legislature in washington during the first trump administration in advance of this one and now i'm bringing those neighbors' voices with me, those experiences to keep fighting for all of our community. >> when you ran for the house seat that you now occupy you did receive a number of high-profile endorsements in washington. what was it like campaigning for the ho us? >> it was a different adventure. i had run two of the toughest campaigns in the state so i knew what tough campaigning was like but the congressional district is once bigger. running in a democratic primary was new for me but i went out

and talked to my neighbors as before. showed up at their front doors and asked them their concerns and what they hoped for and tried to bring those stories along with me. i think that's part of why senator patty murray endorsed me because she saw me doing that work and i'm here to make sure folks feel like they've got real representation. >> i always like to ask our cross-country folks how often they hope to get back home to the district. what are you thinking? >> most weekends. it is a big agree graphic district so i captain just go home one weekend a month and be in everyone corner with it. i have family i want to spend time with. a baby. nicole: who's almost 1. my wife, my sister, my mom. i'll take those cross-country commutes with my little dog and rack up the air miles and come

back here and get to work. >> what do you see as the toughest part of negotiating washington, d.c.? >> this is my first time as a minority. i always served in a democratic fry tecta in the senate senate but even when i was a member of the majority, i knew that bipartisan relationships made my policy better so i'm going to try and draw on experiences to draw on folks