[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5679 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5679

  To direct the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to 
revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda 
 of the United States Capitol to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 16, 2002

 Mr. Owens (for himself, Ms. Watson of California, and Ms. Jackson-Lee 
  of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to 
revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda 
 of the United States Capitol to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds as follows:
            (1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the 
        founders of the movement for women's suffrage in the United 
        States, and no monument that does not include her can 
        accurately represent this important development in our Nation's 
        history.
            (2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally 
        presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the 
        Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and 
        presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays 
        several early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's 
        contemporaries but not Sojourner Truth herself, the only 
        African American among the group.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE STATUE.

    Not later than the final day on which the One Hundred Eighth 
Congress is in session, the Architect of the Capitol shall enter into a 
contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in 
the rotunda of the United States Capitol (commonly known as the 
``Portrait Monument'') to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.
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