[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H6076-H6077]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    WOMEN'S CAUCUS LEGISLATION MUST-PASS LEGISLATION MOVING FORWARD

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, this session the Congressional Women's 
Caucus has crafted a must-pass list of bills which we call the 
Magnificent Seven. For the first time, the Women's Caucus, and we are 
now 55 women strong in this Congress, has chosen not a wish-list, but a 
real list for passage.
  Last week the second of the Magnificent Seven passed, the Lowey 
amendment affording contraceptive choices for Federal employees. The 
week before, sections of the Violence against Women Act, another 
priority, passed.

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  That leaves five more, all carefully chosen consensus bills which 
every Member can support, from the reauthorization of the Mammography 
Standards Act, assuring safe machinery to detect breast cancer, to a 
Sense of the House Resolution encouraging the Federal Government to 
raise its support for the burgeoning number of women-owned businesses. 
There is no gender preference here. All Members can support these 
bills.

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