[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E639]
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        IN HONOR OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT

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                           HON. DUNCAN HUNTER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 21, 2019

  Mr. HUNTER. Madam Speaker, I rise to commemorate the 100th 
anniversary of the House passage of the 19th Amendment, which 
guaranteed women the right to vote. The Senate followed the House two 
weeks later with passage on June 4, 1919, and the amendment was 
ratified by the states the following year. This historic centennial 
offers an unparalleled opportunity to commemorate this victorious 
milestone of the women's suffrage movement.
  In 1848, a group of women organized a national women's rights 
convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Following the convention, the 
right to vote came to the front and center of the women's rights 
movement. Many women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, along 
with Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and 
lobbied state and federal governments to grant voting rights to women.
  Almost 70 years later, in her first term, Jeannette Rankin, the first 
woman elected to Congress, introduced a Constitutional Amendment to 
grant women's suffrage. Several years later, women's rights groups 
finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
  Madam Speaker, our democracy is stronger because of the 19th 
Amendment, and I am proud to honor women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 
Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and other women, who accomplished so 
much. The efforts of these great American women afford generations to 
come with the opportunity to vote freely, whether it is in a neighbor's 
garage in Escondido, or from a far battlefield defending our freedom.

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