Barbara A. Mikulski

Susan Combs is the Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Colleen Shogan is the Vice Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Kay Coles James is the Immediate Past Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. Sen. Barbara Mikulski is the Immediate Past Vice Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. August 18 will mark an imperative but often neglected anniversary in the history of American democracy.

But today, because of the Mikulski Women's Preventive Health Amendment, all new health plans must offer free preventive health care services, with no co-pay or other cost-sharing requirements. That includes mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, HIV and sexually transmitted disease testing, and more. Today, you—and your mother, and your sister—can get a lifesaving mammogram, or take advantage of a cervical cancer screening, without worrying how to pay for it.

Newly elected Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will serve as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) for the 2018 election cycle — in which Democrats will defend 25 Senate seats. Van Hollen was noncommittal about the job when reporters asked him about it earlier this week. Schumer left out the DSCC chairmanship when he announced the rest of his leadership team Wednesday.