“I wish that we had had that discussion, I can honestly tell you that,” Murkowski said. The Alaska senator sat for a CNN special with Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to celebrate Mikulski becoming the longest serving female member of Congress.

“I think that my party is in an unfortunate place right now as viewed by many women in this country who are feeling very anxious about what they believe to be attacks on women’s health,” Murkowski continued.

The four female senators went on to talk about how an informal sisterhood that crossed partisan lines had grown in the Senate.