[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4860-4861]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND WOMEN'S ECONOMIC AGENDA

  (Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico asked and was given 
permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend 
her remarks.)
  Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, March is 
Women's History Month, and I rise in memory of a trailblazer, Georgia 
Lee Lusk, the first woman to ever represent New Mexico in the House of 
Representatives.
  Georgia was elected in 1946 and served Congressional District One, my 
district. Georgia is in our history books as a woman who wasn't afraid 
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a fight. She grew up on a farm in Carlsbad and went to Highlands 
University in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Georgia went to Washington to 
fight for better education and better care for veterans. As a school 
administrator, she had seen the effects of book shortages and 
overcrowded classrooms on young students. As a mother of three boys who 
all fought in the Second World War, she knew all too well the 
challenges faced by those returning from war. Georgia served on the 
Veterans' Affairs Committee and worked across the aisle to make sure 
that veterans received the benefits provided to them in the GI Bill of 
Rights. She fought for Federal aid to education, hot meals for 
students, and helped establish what we now know as the Department of 
Education, and she did so much more.
  Mr. Speaker, as only the third Congresswoman in New Mexico's history, 
I am determined to carry on Georgia's fight--a fight for better care 
for our veterans and a better education for our students. When women 
succeed, America succeeds.

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