[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4020]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            EMPOWERING WOMEN

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, what an amazing day: 100 years ago, 
the Congress voted out a resolution to empower women with the right to 
vote.
  What is interesting, the last day, the last State, Tennessee, when 
the vote was taken, or when it was about to be taken, the then-Speaker, 
who was against it, wearing a red rose, said: We have got the votes.
  But there is nothing like the power of a woman and the power of a 
mother. And a young legislator got a letter from his mother that very 
morning that said: Son, be a good boy, and vote to let women vote.
  And, lo and behold, Tennessee ratified that right because that 24-
year-old voted to let women vote.
  It is an important time now for women to be empowered, because the 
States of Alabama and Texas and Mississippi and Missouri and others are 
now trying to reign back the rights of women and the right to choose.
  We respect other values. We respect the Constitution and the Ninth 
Amendment, but Alabama and Mississippi and Texas and Missouri, we are 
not going back, because women got the right to vote. And just like that 
young man, be a good boy and leave women alone, for them to choose 
their own right, the right to vote.

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