She unsuccessfully ran in the 1994 United States Senate election in Rhode Island, but lost to Republican John Chafee.
[2] She attended Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960.
[1] The following year, she introduced a bill that would have banned discrimination against gays and lesbians, although it failed to pass the legislature.
[4] She sponsored a gun control bill that would have banned "Saturday night specials" in 1989, when she was deputy majority leader.
[7] Due to her opponent's popularity, she was considered unlikely to win and ultimately lost the election, receiving 36% of the vote to his 64%.