(CNN) Senator Lisa Murkowski looked around the Senate floor and noticed something was a little... off.

"Something is genuinely different," she told the few assembled lawmakers during Tuesday's short morning session.

Back at work after last weekend's snowstorm shuttered the federal government, the Republican senator from Alaska noted that she shared something in common with every single person in the room.

No, Republicans and Democrats didn't magically come together during the weather break and agree on something. Every single person in the room was a woman.

Every. Single. One.

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