Honorable Barbara Mikulski
United States Senator, Maryland, Democrat
Senator Mikulski was first elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1986. The following is excerpted from her August 4, 2010, remarks during debate on confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. I am of the generation when a woman on the Court was going to be viewed as a novelty. I remember very well when Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor, and the world and the United States of America was abuzz: Wow, a woman is going to go on the Court. She went to the Court, and I think history, legal scholars, and the…
