second woman to serve on the senate finance committee and the first to do so substantively was carol moseley braun who served on the committee in 2004-2005 congresses. then came the gals from arkansas and maine the 107th congress. it was olympia snowe and myself. i could not have asked for a more wonderful part are as a female. olympia snowe was phenomenal to work with. a hard-working, thorough, and anxious to do good. that made a difference. since she is not here tonight and we were in the majority when all that happened i'm going to go ahead and say i'm the third woman of the committee. she's going to be the fourth. and today there have been nine women out of 372 members. there are 4 on the committee today tying the record of the 111th congress. they are all democrats unfortunately. we've got to get some republican women on there. and with 12 years under their belt these are the longest serving women on the senate finance committee so i'm very proud of them and grateful to them for all that they have done and continue to do. i would like to say that when i think about what we said about th

there were a lot of left-wing candidates that tried to be -- this sounds eerily familiar, but carol moseley brown, dennis kucinich, al sharpton, even john edwards and apart start to get into this. this is going to get into a out of hand. joe lieberman didn't want to run. neither did al gore. people in the party were dissing some delicately distancing themselves from bill clinton, te way democrats today are with barack obama. and john kerry, our precursor to joe biden. a warhorse in the senate but had a distinguished career and he was a gas machine. he was for the ' $87 billion before, he wore camouflage, i think they were junior colleague students, if you don't go to college will go to a rack. >> the military held a sign misspelled it to make fun of what he said. >> the democratic establishment of the that joe bidart is going to save them from the agendas kamala harris elizabeth warren and these lesser candidates are running on. cory booker, et cetera. when you actually look at joe biden, he's he's merely rather dismissive of john kerry. i think you'll do better than the others would, but h

second woman to serve on the senate finance committee and the first to do so substantively was carol moseley brawn of illinois who served on the committee in the 2004 and 2005 congresses. then guess what? then came the gals from arkansas and maine of the 107th congress. it was olympia snowe and myself. i could not have asked for a more wonderful partner in the committee as a female, olympia snowe. she was just phenomenal to work with. hardworking, thorough and really anxious to do good. that made a difference. so now since olympia was not here tonight and we were in the majority when all that happened, i'm going to go ahead and say i'm the third woman on the committee. olympia is going to be the fourth. now today, you know, there's been nine women out of 372 members of the senate finance committee. there are four on the committee today tying the record of the 111th congress. they are all democrats, unfortunately. we've got to get some republican women on there. with a little over 12 years under their belts senator cantwell and stabben ow. i'm grateful. when i think about what don and i have

second woman to serve on the senate finance committee and the first to do so substantively was carol moseley brawn of illinois who served on the committee in the 204th and 205th congresses. then guess what? then came the gals from arkansas and maine of the 107th congress. it was olympia snow and myself, and i could not have asked for a more wonderful partner in the committee as a female, olympia snow. she was just phenomenal to work with, hardworking, thorough, and really anxious to do good, and that made a difference. now since owe limb olympia is and we were in the majority when it happened, i'm going to say i am the third woman on the committee, olympia will be the fourth. today there's been nine members out of 372 members of the senate finance committee there. are four on the committee today tying the record of the 111th congress. they're all democrats, unfortunately. we got to get some republican women on there. with a little over 12 years under their belts, senator cantwell and senator stabenow are the longest serving on the committee. i'm grateful to them for all that they have done a