Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) noted that only women turned up to run the Senate Jan. 26, following a weekend blizzard that brought D.C. to a standstill. (C-SPAN) 
 
 Something was a little different in the Senate on Tuesday morning. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski noticed it. 
 
 The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it was her job to handle the formalities of delaying Senate business until her colleagues could get back to work. After finishing a bit of parliamentary business, she described what she saw in the ornate chamber. 
 
 “As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female.” 
 
 Murkowski noted that she and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who was wielding the Senate gavel, hadn’t planned the all-women session. It was, she said, just a coincidence. 
 
 “Something is genuinely different — and something is genuinely fabulous,” Murkowski said. 
 
 She theorized that the lack of men in the ranks of members and staffers might not have been a simple fluke. “Perhaps it speaks to the hardiness of women,” she added, “that put on your boots and put your hat on and get out and slog through the mess that’s out there.” 
 
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 Who run the Senate floor? Girls. 
 
 At least, that was the answer Tuesday morning, as Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) found themselves the only members on the Senate floor, surrounded by an all-female cadre of pages and clerks. 
 
 The two women legislators were there to attend to some administrative business: Collins was presiding over the Senate as Murkowski went through some procedural niceties needed to delay Senate business until Wednesday, when most senators were returning to Washington DC for the week’s first votes. 
 
 “As we convene this morning, and look around the chamber… the presiding officer is female,” Murkowski began. “Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female,” she continued, looking around her in mock surprise. 
 
 “Now, this was not orchestrated in any way, shape or form. We came in this morning and thought, something is different this morning. Different in a good way, I might add,” she said. 
 
 “But something is genuinely different and I think it’s genuinely fabulous.” 
 
 The Secretary of the Senate has not responded to an inquiry as to whether this all-gentlewoman session was the first in Senate history.
– For what might be the first time in history, the United States Senate held only women on Tuesday. Only Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska took to the Senate floor after the weekend blizzard and were tasked with delaying Senate business, reports ABC News. Then Murkowski noticed something odd. "The presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female," she said, per the Washington Post. While it was just a coincidence, it was also "genuinely fabulous," Murkowski said. "Perhaps it speaks to the hardiness of women, that put on your boots and put your hat on and get out and slog through the mess that’s out there."