Phil Gingrey: “Well, I am very, very honored to have the opportunity to join my colleague, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ginny…”

“Well, I am very, very honored to have the opportunity to join my colleague, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ginny Brown- Waite), Mr. Speaker, and I commend her for putting this hour together to talk about the rights of women. Mr. Speaker, we all know that the gentlewoman from Florida, with others in this body, have recently put together a women's caucus, a bipartisan effort with Members from both sides of the aisle coming together on women's issues, and I really commend them for that. I commend her, and I commend the bipartisan spirit, Mr. Speaker, in speaking out on women's issues. We Members of this body who happen to be physicians, and I think there are now ten of us, Mr. Speaker, including yourself, recently did the same thing coming together in a bipartisan fashion on issues of health care. I think what we are showing tonight as we discuss women's issues is we can do that as a Congress, and our citizens in every district, all 435 of this great body, they want us to do that. They realize we have differences of opinions on certain things, and maybe sometimes it seems like it is virtually impossible to come together, but I know that we can. I know we can on health care issues, and I know we can on women's issues. And so, Mr. Speaker, I commend the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms.…”