Ladies Night: NH Senators Credited with Power of Negotiation

The following tune may or may not have been heard in a karaoke bar somewhere near the nation's capital Wednesday night, following the vote to resolve the government shut down:

Oh yes, it's ladies night, and the feeling's right, oh yes it's ladies night, oh what a night.

Why, you ask?

On Monday the New York Times reported that a bipartisan group of women senators was playing a crucial role in opening discussions between Republicans and Democrats over how to move forward and reopen the government – including Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte.

And by Wednesday night, it was a done deal.

"Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily from women in the Senate," Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said after news of the deal was announced.

There are 20 female senators currently serving in Washington.

Out of the 14 senators on the bipartisan committee that laid the framework for the debt deal, six were women. In addition to Shaheen and Ayotte, they include: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, D-Alaska  Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND.

You can read the full story, 'Men Got Us Into the Shutdown, Women Got Us Out, here on the Huffington Post.