[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 34 (Friday, February 29, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S1435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      REMEMBERING HARRIETT WOODS AS A PIONEER IN WOMEN'S POLITICS

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to Calendar No. 81, S. Res. 96.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 96) expressing the sense of the 
     Senate that Harriett Woods will be remembered as a pioneer in 
     women's politics.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to 
reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, 
and that any statements relating to this matter be printed in the 
Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 96) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                               S. Res. 96

       Whereas Harriett Woods, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, 
     launched a 50-year political career with a neighborhood 
     crusade against rattling potholes;
       Whereas Harriett Woods, who died of leukemia at the age of 
     79 on February 8, 2007, had many firsts, including being the 
     first female editor for her college newspaper at the 
     University of Michigan, the first woman on the Missouri 
     Transportation Commission, and the first woman to win 
     statewide office in the State of Missouri as Lieutenant 
     Governor;
       Whereas, from 1991 to 1995, Harriett Woods served as 
     president of the National Women's Political Caucus, a 
     bipartisan grassroots organization whose mission is to 
     increase women's participation in the political process at 
     all levels of government; and
       Whereas Harriett Woods was integral to the electoral 
     successes of what became known as the Year of the Woman, when 
     in 1992, female candidates won 19 seats in the House of 
     Representatives and 3 seats in the Senate: Now, therefore, be 
     it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that Harriett 
     Woods will be remembered as a pioneer in women's politics, 
     whose actions and leadership inspired hundreds of women 
     nationwide to participate in the political process and to 
     break gender barriers at every level of government.

  Mr. REID. Madam President, I don't want to spend a lot of time on 
this, but Harriett Woods is somebody I knew, and it brings a lot of 
thoughts to my mind about what she and I tried to do together.

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