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Mikulski set to make history

When Maryland's Barbara Mikulski was first sworn in as a U.S. senator in 1987, she entered what she described as "a guys' club," a chamber where senators socialized in a gym off-limits to her and the only other female senator then, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas.

By The Associated Press

January 4, 2011

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