[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 134 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       RELEASE THE ETHICS REPORT AND THE WOMEN FROM THE BASEMENT

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, we are appealing to you to release the 
ethics report and to release the women from the basement.
  As a New Yorker, I am anguished that the statute of our State's most 
distinguished leaders--Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and 
Lucretia Mott--have remained in the basement of the Capitol for the 
past 76 years.
  Mr. Speaker, almost every great struggle throughout American history 
is represented in the Capitol's rotunda, including the leaders of those 
revolutions, Lincoln, Washington, and King.
  Exactly 76 years ago American women gained the right to vote, but our 
great leaders still are not allowed in the living room to stand beside 
the great male leaders.
  Mr. Speaker, American women ask the same question they asked 
President Wilson: how long must we wait?

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