TOTO We aren't in Binders Anymore!!!

As many people have heard our President, Sir Barack Obama was reinstated as the 44th President of the United Sates of America. I am the most satisfied with the outcome of the election because once again people saw the improvements the President made as a higher standing ground versus the mistakes. To have a president who believes not only in my pursuit as a college student, a minority and as a middle class citizen, most importantly he strongly cares about my status in society as a WOMAN. However, as ecstatic as I am about having a president whose ideas and beliefs I agree with and who is truly concerned with my future, I am also highly pleased with three women being elected into congress.  Elizabeth Warren, Claire McCaskill, and Tammy Baldwin were all elected into the Senate this past Tuesday, November 6th election day. Elizabeth Warren's work as a national policy advocate led to the conception and establishment of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  She later served as Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Barack Obama, and will now be the first female senator from Massachusetts. She responded to a bias comment made back in 2010 stating that asking the rich to pay more money is class warfare.

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody. ... You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless – keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." 

 Barack Obama echoed her sentiments later in 2012 in a speech made famous for the phrase "You didn't build that".

Claire McCaskill, in the U.S. Senate, serves as a member of the Committee on Armed Services, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Special Committee on Aging. She is chairperson of the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight and the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri in her own right. She has made efforts to help those for physical and mental health conditions, eluding to the Affordable Health Care (ObamaCare) as well for war conditions. She introduced legislation with then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) after the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal erupted which demanded the full accountability of wounded veterans and agencies that would ensure physical and mental health conditions being addressed. "Those who have fought this war and felt its effects most personally, our servicemen and women, deserve to have a real researched plan for dealing with the aftermath of their sacrifice, so that the mistakes made by the administration in war planning are not repeated in planning for the readjustment needs of these heroes. "

Baldwin won the United States Senate election in Wisconsin, being the first openly gay person to be elected to the Senate and the first female elected to represent Wisconsin in the Senate. She identifies as a proud progressive stating, “Fighting Bob La Follette stood up to fight the monopolies of the day and wanted people to have a stronger voice. We have the same powerful interests today who think they can write their own rules in Washington … I consider myself a progressive and a fighter who’s not afraid to stand up to those interests.” She is an inspiration to members of the LGBTQ community and show change in the ideals of what American senators are fighting for and/or opening their minds to.  Such a great outcome in this election and what a profound statement it gave to voters like me who voices were heard, who impact made a change, and who's opinions were most likely seen by electoral votes.