Washington, D.C.—To Ben Vargas, Sonia Sotomayor represents the roadblocks set before one Latino firefighter’s advancement. To two prominent local Latinas who showed up at the U.S. Senate Wednesday, Sotomayor’s story sounds like their own—a Puerto Rican woman breaking barriers.

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