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And you begin to also feel that your—obviously your constituents come first. You know, you want to say that because they elect you.    

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But when you come to this body you recognize that you cannot help your constituents unless also help others. And that as a woman, you found yourself 

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not only coalescing with women here, but also national groups who would bring issues to you. I was probably, 

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had as many national organizations coming to me as I had local coming to me from my district. I had, if, even if they weren't women, I had,  

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I certainly had national women groups coming to me to talk about issues, that rather they had an auxiliary or a chapter in my state or in my district. 

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So, yes. Once you're here, people begin to see you're not only representing your district, but also representing the area. And women groups certainly 

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took the advantage of that. And a larger number of women groups are far more active now, but they were active then. 

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And not only in terms of EMILY's List in terms of money, in trying to raise, but groups who were concerned about health,  

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groups who were concerned about education, pro-choice groups. All of those groups nationally would, would use the opportunity to lobby all of us, 

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as women in those areas, and not limit it to where they were located.