[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 20, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                  HONORING CONGRESSWOMAN MARCY KAPTUR

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                          HON. ROSA L. DeLAURO

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 20, 2018

  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise in 
honor of my very dear friend and sister in arms, Marcy Kaptur, who 
becomes the longest serving woman in the United States House of 
Representatives on Sunday.
   Marcy Kaptur is a woman who has fought for working people her entire 
career. She has been a bulwark of support for fair trade that grows 
American jobs--on NAFTA in the 1990s to today, and on the Trans Pacific 
Partnership.
   Marcy was the ranking Member on the Agriculture before I became the 
chair, and on issues as wide ranging as food stamps, housing, and 
manufacturing, she has proven time and again to be one of the 
brightest, most substantive colleagues I have ever worked with.
   Her election paved the way for so many women to run for office. From 
the Carter Administration to one of the most senior members of the 
Congress, Marcy, your career has been exemplary of the call of public 
service.
   Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in the Congress, 
once said: ``You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, 
whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.'' 
Marcy does that--she has never spent a day on the sidelines in her 
life.
   Congratulations, and here is to many more years fighting together--
for the vulnerable, for families, and for the middle class.

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