Gillibrand Says More Women in Congress Would Mean More Progress

The U.S. Congress would be working on consensus-building and not be crippled by gridlock if there were more women in both houses, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said.

“If we had 51 percent women in Congress, we wouldn’t have wasted the last four years debating contraception” and would have focused on the economy instead, the New York Democrat said at the fifth annual Women in the World conference in New York, where she appeared on a panel with Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine.