Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 7698) to designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ventura, California, as the ``Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner Outpatient Clinic''. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 7698 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) As of January 2021, of the 1,255 health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, two are named after women. (2) Rosemary Ann Bryant was born on April 2, 1953, in Harlingen, Texas, to Captain Cecil Bryant and Constance Boylan Bryant, a World War II Navy nurse. (3) Captain Mariner was the first woman to enroll in the aeronautics program at Purdue University in 1971. (4) Captain Mariner joined the Navy in 1973, and after graduating from officer candidate school that year, she became a member of the Navy's first flight-training class for women. (5) In 1974, Captain Mariner was one of six women to earn her wings and in 1975 she became the first female Naval aviator to fly a jet attack aircraft. (6) In July 1990, Captain Mariner was named commander of Navy ``Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 34'' at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Ventura County, California.…”