We stand on very tall shoulders. If we think about people that have died to give us the opportunity to stand here on this floor and have this conversation, then I am committed that we will never go back to an institution of all white men. ... Somebody in the State of New York does not like the fact that we have, for the first time in our Nation's history, a Puerto Rican American woman voting on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.
Rep. Corrine Brown: “We stand on very tall shoulders. If we think about people that have died to give us the opportunity to stand here on…”
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Addressing the representation of women and minorities in Congress.
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