[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 213 (Wednesday, December 16, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7553-S7554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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  SENATE RESOLUTION 803--DESIGNATING ROOM S-124 OF THE UNITED STATES 
     CAPITOL AS THE ``U.S. SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH ROOM'' AND 
   DESIGNATING ROOM S-115 OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL AS THE ``U.S. 
SENATOR BARBARA A. MIKULSKI ROOM'', IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR SERVICE TO 
             THE SENATE AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

  Mr. BLUNT (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Collins, Mr. King, Mr. 
Cardin, and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted the following resolution; which 
was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 803

       Whereas Senator Margaret Chase Smith served the people of 
     Maine for more than 32 years as a member of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate;
       Whereas Senator Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman 
     to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate;
       Whereas Senator Margaret Chase Smith served as Chair of the 
     Republican Conference, the first woman to hold a leadership 
     position in the Senate;
       Whereas, during her tenure in the Senate, Senator Margaret 
     Chase Smith served as--
       (1) the first woman Ranking Member of the Committee on 
     Armed Services, the first woman Ranking Member of the 
     Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and the Chair 
     of the Committee on Rates and Compensation of Certain 
     Officers and Employees of the Senate; and
       (2) a member of the Committee on District of Columbia, the 
     Committee on Expenditures

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     in the Executive Departments (renamed the Committee on 
     Government Operations in 1952), the Committee on Rules and 
     Administration, the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
     Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies;
       Whereas, on June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith 
     spoke out against McCarthyism in the Senate Chamber, becoming 
     one of the first Senators to do so, with her ``Declaration of 
     Conscience'' speech;
       Whereas Senator Margaret Chase Smith championed legislation 
     and policies for women in the military throughout her Senate 
     career and served as a role model to countless women seeking 
     elective office and careers in public service;
       Whereas Senator Barbara A. Mikulski served the people of 
     Maryland for more than 45 years as a member of the Baltimore 
     City Council, the House of Representatives, and the Senate;
       Whereas Senator Barbara A. Mikulski served the longest 
     tenure of all women in Congress to date;
       Whereas Senator Barbara A. Mikulski served as Democratic 
     Conference Secretary, the first woman to hold a Democratic 
     leadership position in the Senate;
       Whereas, during her tenure in the Senate, Senator Barbara 
     A. Mikulski served as--
       (1) the first Chairwoman of the Committee on 
     Appropriations, the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on 
     Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
     Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, and the first 
     Vice Chairwoman of the Committee on Appropriations; and
       (2) a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
     and Pensions (formerly the Committee on Labor and Human 
     Resources) and the Committee on Small Business and 
     Entrepreneurship;
       Whereas Senator Barbara A. Mikulski championed policy on 
     higher education, pay equality, space, technology, justice, 
     Alzheimer's research, and maritime issues and sponsored 
     legislation to improve women's health, including the creation 
     of the Office of Research on Women's Health of the National 
     Institutes of Health; and
       Whereas Senator Barbara A. Mikulski mentored other female 
     Senators as the Dean of the Women Senators and fostered 
     bipartisan cooperation and friendship amongst the women of 
     the Senate: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That, in recognition of the service of Senator 
     Margaret Chase Smith and Senator Barbara A. Mikulski to the 
     Senate and the people of the United States, the Senate 
     designates--
       (1) room S-124 of the United States Capitol as the ``U.S. 
     Senator Margaret Chase Smith Room''; and
       (2) room S-115 of the United States Capitol as the ``U.S. 
     Senator Barbara A. Mikulski Room''.

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