[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12207]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, did you know that 
last Sunday marked the anniversary of the day in 1917 when 16 women 
demanded the right to vote in front of the White House? They were 
sentenced to 60 days in the workhouse for demanding universal suffrage 
for women.
  Did you know that tomorrow is the day when in 1892 Doris Fleischman 
Bernays was born? She was to become the first married woman to get a 
passport in her own name and to get her name on her daughter's birth 
certificate.
  Or did you know that the famous Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire 
partnership ended in part because she was angry over gender pay 
standards? She grew tired of being paid half of what her male 
colleagues were paid in films in which she was starring.
  These are the sorts of things that one day visitors will learn about 
at the National Women's History Museum when it opens its doors--with a 
goal of educating, inspiring, and empowering women.
  After all, American history is her story too. That is why I have 
introduced with Marsha Blackburn H.R. 863, a bill to create such a 
museum. Join it and make your mother proud.

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