[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16395]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        157TH ANNIVERSARY OF SENECA FALLS, NY WOMEN'S CONVENTION

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, on this day in 1848, one of the first 
public appeals for women's suffrage was made when Lucretia Mott and 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton called a women's rights convention in Seneca 
Falls, New York. For over 70 years, women organized, marched picket 
lines, and chained themselves to the White House fence until women won 
the right to vote with the 19th amendment in 1920.
  Suffragettes should be remembered, and last week I introduced a 
resolution to establish a day to commemorate America's suffragettes. It 
was not long ago that women in this country did not have the right to 
vote, and we ought not take that right for granted. Women have a 
responsibility to exercise that right and make a difference in this 
country.
  We women do have this responsibility to show our patriotism, 
demonstrate good citizenship by setting an example for our children by 
participating in the political process and by casting our vote in this 
country to elect our representatives.

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