Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 5016) to designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Anchorage, Alaska, as the ``Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System'', and for other purposes. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: S. 5016 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System Act of 2022''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Mary Louise (Milligan) Rasmuson was born April 11, 1911, in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (2) Mary Louise received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Master of Education degree from the University of Pittsburgh. (3) Mary Louise was one of the first two women to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. (4) In 1942, Mary Louise joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps as a Private and was in the first graduating class. (5) Mary Louise worked up the ranks, and in 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Mary Louise as the Fifth Director of the Women's Army Corps and she was reappointed to this position by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. (6) In 1962, Colonel Rasmuson retired from the Army.…”