Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (S. 321) to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the Women's Army Corps who were assigned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the ``Six Triple Eight''. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: S. 321 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 `` `Six Triple Eight' Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) On July 1, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law legislation that established the Women's Army Corps (referred to in this section as the ``WAC'') as a component in the Army. The WAC was converted from the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (referred to in this section as the ``WAAC''), which had been created in 1942 without official military status. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, advocated for the admittance of African-American women into the newly formed WAC to serve as officers and enlisted personnel. (2) Dubbed ``10 percenters'', the recruitment of African- American women to the WAAC was limited to 10 percent of the population of the WAAC to match the proportion of African- Americans in the national population. Despite an Executive order issued by President Franklin D.…”