and we saw the first women elected to the senate from wisconsin hawaii, north dakota and massachusetts ever. the first congresswomen with combat experience, the first ion women to the senate, the first openly gay senator and three congresswomen under 40. the 113th congress has the greatest number of women ever. i can probably say that 59% of those women are emily's list candidates. but we are still only at 20%. and we still face challenges. i love to tell the story when barbara was first elected to the senate, i'm serious about this, there was no women's bathroom in the united states senate building. seriously she had to go to the office building across the street to go to the bathroom and had to ask them to build a bathroom in the united states senate. that was in 1986. just to make this clear, we had mtv before there was a women's bathroom in the united states senate. in this year, the senator of minnesota announced that the women of the senate made history in an unexpected way. there was for the first time a traffic jam for the bathroom at the united states senate. so it is true, ou