[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4475 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4475

  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

                            December 8, 2005

 Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas (for herself, Ms. Watson, Mr. Rush, Ms. Lee, 
 Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. Kilpatrick of 
 Michigan, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Serrano, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. 
  Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Meeks of New 
York, and Mr. Chabot) 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 tribute that fails to 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 Tenth 
Congress is in session, the Joint Committee on the Library shall 
include a likeness of Sojourner Truth in the statue commemorating 
women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol 
(commonly known as the ``Portrait Monument'').
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