[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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                     THANKS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, the State Department is indeed under new 
management. I mean, how often does a Member take the floor and thank 
the State Department. But for the first time in the history of this 
country, the State Department came out with its new human rights 
survey, and women have been declared human.
  That is incredible, that we had to wait until 1994 to finally have 
that happen. But thank them, because for the first time in our human 
rights survey, we look at the countries who have denied women their 
rights, who have abused women, repressed women, and done all sorts of 
things from allowing the selling of young women into slavery, bridge 
burnings, genital mutilation of women, and denying them basic property 
and family rights.
  Now we must follow through. We, as American women who pay taxes 
equally, are really horrified at the long record of neglect on this 
issue. We salute how they have closed it this year, and now let us 
follow through and put pressure on those countries to also recognize 
women as human.

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