[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HONORING COURAGEOUS WOMEN WHO WON RIGHT TO VOTE

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, just over 100 
years ago, my mother was born without the right to vote. Like other 
women of her time, she had no vote, and she had no voice in her 
government.
  Today, we honor the courageous women who marched, staged hunger 
strikes, went to jail, and persevered in order to win this fundamental 
right for half the country, forever altering our democracy by ensuring 
that everyone in this country, including women, had the constitutional 
right to vote.
  I am deeply grateful that my mother benefited from their efforts and 
that she would live to see her daughter run for and be elected to 
Congress.
  Millions of women voted for the first time in November 1920 and in 
the nearly 100 years since. But we still have much more work to do.
  I am determined that, one day soon, all of our daughters and sons 
will witness the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which, at 
long last, makes it clear that equal means equal.

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