[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 129 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8512]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, as one of the seven new Republican women 
elected to this House as part of the ``Year of the Republican Woman,'' 
I come to the floor today to tell the untold story about women's 
rights.
  This month marks the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage. August 26, 
1920, was the date that American women first obtained the right to vote 
in our country. And it took a Republican Congress to pass the Equal 
Suffrage amendment. After being killed four times in a Democratic-
controlled Congress, the Republicans passed the amendment and sent it 
to be ratified by 36 States.
  The Republican party was the first major party to advocate equal 
rights for women and the principle of equal pay for equal work. This 
party supported the suffrage amendment throughout its long and 
ultimately successful campaign.
  The Republican party is committed to equal opportunity and we are 
committed to women's rights. Mr. Speaker, this party is pro-woman.

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