[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 65 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4804]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CALLING FOR A PUBLIC APOLOGY

  (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, yesterday at a Government Reform and 
Oversight Committee Hearing, two Democrat lawmakers emerged from their 
stone-age caves.
  In a manner that only the Peking man could truly appreciate, they 
called into question the motives of two hard-working female staffers 
because they were married to prominent public officials.
  In a town like Washington, many folks--both male and female--are 
married to prominent public officials. But according to this club-
waving, cave-man mentality, if you are a woman you are incapable of 
rubbing two sticks together--much less having an independent thought.
  Mr. Speaker, I call upon these supposed gentlemen to publicly 
apologize to all women for their ice-age mentality.

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