Congress makes history with 100 women serving at same time

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Congress makes history with 100 women serving at same time

After Democrat Alma Adams of North Carolina is sworn in, she'll be the 100th woman currently sitting in Congress. Host Alex Cohen talks to Debbie Walsh, the Director of the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University for more.

The US Capitol is seen on September 28, 2013 in Washington. US President Barack Obama warned his opponents in Congress that he would not back down in the face of their threat to shut down the government over a budget dispute.'My message to Congress is this. Do not shut down the government, do not shut down the economy, pass a budget on time, pay our bills on time,' Obama said. The standoff on Capitol Hill is showing no signs of being averted before an October 1 deadline, and Obama warned Republicans in the House of Representatives that they faced a choice 'whether to join the Senate and keep the government open or shut it down because they can't get their way on an issue that has nothing to do with the deficit,' he said. Republicans oppose backing an operating plan for the government unless Obama agrees to delay or defund his signature health care reform law, a step the president has flatly refused to take. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

After Democrat Alma Adams of North Carolina is sworn in, she'll be the 100th woman currently sitting in Congress. Host Alex Cohen talks to Debbie Walsh, the Director of the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University for more.

Democrat Alma Adams of North Carolina will be sworn into office Thursday and she’ll be making history when she does.

She won a special election, so she will not have to wait for January’s swearing-in ceremony, and after her swearing in she’ll become the 100th woman currently sitting in Congress.

It’s the first time ever that 100 women have served at the same time.

Host Alex Cohen talks to Debbie Walsh, the Director of the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.