Patricia Schroeder: “I take the floor first of all to say, in this month of women's…”

On the recordMarch 27, 1996

I take the floor first of all to say, in this month of women's history, how pleased I am that the President has made more history for women today. I thought the newspaper article was very, very exciting to talk about how the President has nominated the first woman to the rank of 3-star general. She is in the Marines, Maj. General Carol Mutter, and her wonderful motto is ``perseverance pays.'' We salute her, and we thank the President for moving her forward, and I think all of our foremothers would be proud. But we heard many other Congresswomen take the floor today and talk about the Women's Health Equity Act. The one thing that Congresswomen have the right to make a victory lap about is the progress that we have made on women's health in this body. If the Congresswomen had not been here, believe me, it would not have happened, because when we first got into this they were even doing breast cancer studies on men.

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Patricia Schroeder

Colorado

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Discussing women's health progress and the nomination of the first female 3-star general.

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Patricia Schroeder: “I take the floor first of all to say, in this month of women's history, how pleased I am that the President has made…”

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