[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7783]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                               IT'S 2013

  (Mr. MESSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, it's 2013, and the world is full of 
successful women, women like my mother, who raised her two sons on her 
own while working at the Delta Faucet factory in Greensburg.
  Some women, like my wife--a successful full-time lawyer and a 
successful full-time mother--balance career with family and still find 
time to celebrate good report cards, birthday parties, and family 
vacations.
  Last week, a national debate broke out over reports that 4 out of 10 
households now have women as the lead breadwinner. I live in and grew 
up in two such households.
  Strong women are central to today's family, and that is a good thing. 
I look forward to a time when statistics about the success of women are 
no longer newsworthy.

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