[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 20, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H5345-H5346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       ANNOUNCING 10TH ANNUAL CONGRESSIONAL WOMEN'S SOFTBALL GAME

  (Mrs. ROBY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).
  Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for 
yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, I am thrilled to be able to join my sisters on Team 
Congress for the 10th annual Congressional Women's Softball Game 
tonight. Many of you know that our game started in 2009, after our 
former colleague, Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson, and I came together and 
hatched a plan that--unlike the men, whom we love and respect and cheer 
on in the baseball game--women, being the more collegial sex, would 
come together and play on a bipartisan team against the common enemy: 
the press corps.
  Those of you who were here will remember that we lost our minds in 
the first year and actually thought that we might be able to take on 
our political staff at the DNC, the RNC, the NRCC, the DCCC, and other 
assorted alphabet political organizations, and it didn't go so well. So 
the next year, we thought better of it and came together to take on the 
press corps.
  Through those years, we have had a hearty record where the Members 
have won three of the nine contests that we have engaged in. But most 
importantly, we have always played for the Young Survival Coalition to 
raise awareness and put a spotlight on the millions of young women who 
are under 40 years old who are diagnosed with breast cancer every year.
  Many of you know that I am a breast cancer survivor now of 10 years. 
I am very thrilled to be able to stand in front of you. Back then, I 
told you that I was so fearful of not being able to see the special 
events in my children's lives: their bar and bat mitzvahs, their high 
school graduations. I have been to all three of their bar and bat 
mitzvahs, two high school graduations, and one more to go in a few 
years.

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  We want to make sure that young women all across this country pay 
attention to their breast health and know what is normal for them so 
they know when something feels different.
  I am proud to tell you that, this year, we will have reached a 
milestone where we have raised $1.4 million for the Young Survival 
Coalition.
  So, my sisters, come out and join us tonight at the Watkins 
Recreation Center, 420 Twelfth Street SE, at 7 p.m.
  Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time, I just want to say that 
each of the gentlewomen here all play for an individual who is a 
survivor or a fighter.
  I have a colleague who I have served on the city council with in 
Montgomery, Alabama, for 7 years whose 18-year-old daughter, Courtney, 
was recently diagnosed with leukemia. So I want all of my colleagues to 
know that these are the faces and the individuals whom we are playing 
for on the field tonight. I hope that each of my colleagues will come 
out.
  Go, Congress. Beat the press.

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