[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 43 (Monday, March 8, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

  (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. Mr. Speaker, today is International Women's Day, and 
the theme is #ChooseToChallenge--choose to challenge gender bias and 
discrimination, choose to challenge poor pay, and choose to challenge 
desperate conditions that women are in to be opposed to. So we ask that 
in this day that women will realize that they are ready and able to 
challenge what is wrong.
  This is International Women's Day, and I know that the American 
Rescue Plan Act will take women out of the quagmire of COVID-19 and 
economic depression.
  As well, we look forward this evening to introducing the Violence 
Against Women Act of which I am the lead sponsor with over 150 
cosponsors, so women again can have the protection that is needed by 
law. International Women's Day, yes, we should choose to challenge.

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