[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16397]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CELEBRATING WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, this morning I was honored to 
hear Prime Minister Singh talk about the empowerment of women and 
democracy in India. I rise today to celebrate women's suffrage here in 
the United States. We too believe, from long-standing history, of the 
value and importance of the empowerment of women. That is why women 
like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are 
pioneers on the battlefield of democracy and voting.
  We also recognize Sojourna Truth, who started her life as an 
abolitionist of slavery, but stood alongside these women fighting for 
women's suffrage. We look forward to having her statue added along with 
the outstanding women here in the United States Capitol honored for 
their early history as Susan B. Anthony, as Lucretia Mott, as Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton. We hope to have Sojourna Truth's own statue here in our 
United States Capitol.
  Today, I honor those women and recognize that we in the United States 
Congress must continue to fight for the reauthorization of the Voter 
Rights Act of 1965 and salute those women who first understood that out 
of empowerment for women come change and opportunity.

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