This week, a conversation with Senator Joe Lieberman, who's defending his seat against opponent Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic Primary next Tuesday, a run-off election in Congress Woman's Cynthia McKinney's District also coming up.
Four states (Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi and Vermont) have never elected a woman to Congress.
Giffords is the first Jewish woman elected to Congress from the Arizona.
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Next year, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be the first woman to lead the Congress.
In March, McKinney, the first black woman ever elected to Congress from Georgia when she won in 1992, implied in a radio interview that members of the Bush administration knew about the September 11 attacks beforehand.
Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi promised the woman's death would not be "in vain".
First elected in 1998, the five-term congresswoman was the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and served as chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee.
So with Pelosi as House Speaker promising new civility, and with new women in Congress, is this the year of the woman?
She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
In a few minutes, we'll talk to the woman in charge of ethics and rules changes in the new Congress.
Not just in politics--the country's dominant political party, the National Congress Party, is, after all, headed by Sonia Gandhi, a woman who made our ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women--but in big business, too.
Record numbers of women will be serving in the 110th Congress, and the U.S. House of Representatives will be led by a woman speaker for the first time in history.
She ran for Senate in 1994 and won, "becoming the first woman in American history to serve in both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress, " her Senate Web site notes.
Minnesota had never elected a woman to the Senate until Tuesday, when voters selected Democrat Amy Klobuchar to represent them in the 110th Congress.
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