[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 29, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1938-S1939]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




SENATE RESOLUTION 114--HONORING CONGRESSWOMAN GERALDINE A. FERRARO, THE 
 FIRST WOMAN SELECTED BY A MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY AS ITS CANDIDATE FOR 
 VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND EXTENDING THE CONDOLENCES OF 
                        THE SENATE ON HER DEATH

  Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mrs. Hutchison, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. 
Ayotte, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Collins, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. 
Hagan, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Landrieu, Mrs. McCaskill, Ms. Murkowski, Mrs. 
Murray, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Snowe, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Reid of Nevada, Mr.

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McConnell, Mr. Barrasso, Ms. Akaka, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Begich, Mr. Bennet, 
Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Cardin, Mr. 
Carper, Mr. Casey, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Franken, Mr. 
Harkin, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, 
Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Menendez, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, 
Mr. Pryor, Mr. Reed of Rhode Island, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Sanders, Mr. 
Schumer, Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Udall of New Mexico, 
Mr. Warner, Mr. Webb, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Chambliss) 
submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 114

       Whereas Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro served the 
     people of the Ninth Congressional District of New York for 6 
     years;
       Whereas Congresswoman Ferraro worked her way through law 
     school at Fordham University, at a time when very few women 
     did so;
       Whereas Congresswoman Ferraro then joined the Queens County 
     District Attorney's Office, where she supervised the 
     prosecution of a variety of violent crimes, including child 
     and domestic abuse;
       Whereas in 1978, New York's Ninth Congressional District in 
     Queens elected Congresswoman Ferraro to the U.S. House of 
     Representatives, where she was one of only 16 women members 
     of the House;
       Whereas when she was nominated as the running mate of Vice 
     President Walter F. Mondale in the 1984 presidential race, 
     Congresswoman Ferraro became the first woman ever chosen to 
     run on the national ticket of either of the 2 major political 
     parties of the United States;
       Whereas Congresswoman Ferraro's candidacy continues the 
     progress begun by women who achieved political firsts before 
     her and helped to tear down barriers to the full and equal 
     participation of women in national politics;
       Whereas in January 1993, President Clinton appointed Ms. 
     Ferraro a United States Ambassador to the United Nations 
     Commission on Human Rights, a role from which she championed 
     the rights of women around the world; and
       Whereas Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 bid for Vice President 
     helped our daughters join our sons in believing they could 
     achieve anything they set their minds to: Now, therefore, be 
     it
       Resolved, That--
       (1) the Senate recognizes that Geraldine A. Ferraro's vice-
     presidential candidacy forever enriched the American 
     political landscape and forged a new path for women of the 
     United States;
       (2) the Senate pays tribute to Congresswoman Geraldine A. 
     Ferraro's work to improve the lives of women and families not 
     only in the Ninth Congressional District of New York, whom 
     she represented so well, but also the lives of women and 
     families all across the United States;
       (3) the Senate requests the Secretary of the Senate to 
     transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the family of 
     Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro; and
       (4) when the Senate adjourns today, it stand adjourned as a 
     further mark of respect to the memory of Congresswoman 
     Geraldine A. Ferraro.

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