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da, in 1990 WAND started the
bi-partisan Women Legislators
Lobby (WILL), which aims to ed-
ucate women state legislators
about federal issues and send
them to Congress prepared to
take their places on important
committees like armed services,
appropriations and foreign rela-
tions. According to Ms. Victor,
women make up a tiny 8 percent
of the Senate and 11 percent of
the House. WAND estimates
that one-third of all women state
legislators, the number that be-
long to WiLL, will seek national
office.
"Women have been and must
be at the forefront of legislation
and changes in attitudes that af-
fect women," Ms. Victor says.
Lynn Rivers, a Michigan De-
mocrat and former WiLL mem-
ber, sits on the House Budget
Committee. She is gearing up to
run for a second term in Con-
gress. Debbie Stabenow, former
Democratic primary candidate
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WiLL in her effort to unseat Dick
Chrysler, a first-term Republi-
can congressman. Both women
have financial support, as well,
from WAND's political action
committee.
Women lawmakers of either
party are much likelier to vote
to retain programs like Head
Start, mass transit and educa-
tion, Ms. Victor says. Were they
to occupy spots on key commit-
tees, they would be in a much
better position to curb defense
spending.
This year, for example, Con-
gress is giving the Pentagon $7
billion more than it requested,
Ms. Victor says. That fact was
not a secret, but is largely known
because of the efforts of WAND.
"Sometimes men are too emo-
tional about weapons to be left
to their own devices," she says.
And WAND has "held the
president's feet to the fire" over
ratifying the START II treaty
that destroys and limits the nu-
clear arsenals of the United
States and Russia, and over
maintaining a comprehensive
ban on testing nuclear weapons,
Ms. Victor says.
Congress, particularly its male
Republican members, have al-
ways banged the drum for more
military expenditures, "but the
fact is, we have to be more afraid
of someone walking into the
World Trade Center with a nu-
clear bomb in his suitcase," Ms.
Victor says. CI
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