[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 65 (Friday, May 10, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4805]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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    REPUBLICAN FEMALE STAFFERS ATTACKED BY TWO DEMOCRAT MALE MEMBERS

  (Ms. GREENE of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GREENE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I rise to protest in the most strong 
terms the reprehensible behavior of two Democrat male Members who 
verbally assaulted two Republican staff members yesterday at a meeting 
of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. These two female 
staffers were not attacked for the job they were doing, they were not 
even attacked for their ideology. They were attacked for who they are 
married to, one of them for 1 week.
  Mr. Speaker, women in this country, most of us, work outside the home 
as well as inside the home. We work because we want to, we work because 
the economic policies of the last 40 years of the Democrat-controlled 
Congress have made it that we have to. Whatever the reason for us being 
in the workplace, we deserve the respect and the civility of all of our 
coworkers no matter what title they may hold.
  We are here to stay. Our colleagues better get used to us. And those 
two male Democrat Members committed an offense against all women 
yesterday, they committed an offense against all right-thinking men, 
and they owe us all a public apology.

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