[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 23, 1994]
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  HILLARY CLINTON, FIRST SMART WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN A LONG TIME

  (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning 
to express my appreciation and respect for the First Lady, Hillary 
Clinton. As we speak, she is meeting with people who are interested in 
what we are going to do about long-term care. Hillary Clinton is a 
well-educated woman who feels confident in her own abilities, who has 
felt comfortable in leaving the teas at the White House and going to 
the people, listening to them and helping to develop a policy to 
respond to them. We appreciate her because of that.
  We realize we are not an ivory tower. We realize that we cannot get 
policies put together that represent people without talking to people 
and responding to them. Hillary Clinton has been willing to do that. 
She has been our First Lady.
  Mr. Speaker, we elected Bill Clinton for President, and that is his 
wife, and we are delighted that in America, for the first time in a 
long time, we have a smart woman who is willing to leave the teas, 
leave the receptions, and go to the people, and respond to the people. 
We thank Hillary. We thank her for the respect she has for the people 
of this Nation. We thank her for the job that she is doing.

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