[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]




         CELEBRATING THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE

  (Mrs. LESKO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mrs. LESKO. Madam Speaker, I am proud to speak before the U.S. House 
of Representatives in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the House 
passage of the 19th Amendment that gave all women the right to vote. 
This centennial is one of the most important in our Nation's history, 
and I am thrilled to be celebrating it with my colleagues here on the 
House floor.
  The fight for women's suffrage in my State of Arizona began when we 
were still a territory in the 1800s. Brave women, like Josephine Hughes 
of Tucson, Frances Munds of Prescott, and others, led the suffragist 
movement in Arizona so that women in Arizona won the right to vote even 
before the 19th Amendment passed.
  Let us celebrate the many women and men who fought for so much over 
so many years to ensure the right to vote for women in America.
  As the daughter of a great mother, as the mother of a wonderful 
daughter, and as the grandmother to a 1-week-old granddaughter, I am so 
proud to be here today to honor this great, historic moment.

                          ____________________