Patsy T. Mink: “Mr. Speaker, there are many others who wanted to be here, but because of the advance of the time that we had informed…”

“Mr. Speaker, there are many others who wanted to be here, but because of the advance of the time that we had informed the offices that they would be heard, many are not here. But I wanted to say that the most important message that I believe we all want to say in the 30th anniversary of title IX is that while we can give the impact of what title IX has meant to this country up to now, we who have lived all of the problems and difficulties of the last 30 years can easily understand and appreciate the importance of this legislation but are concerned that the young people coming up still in schools, elementary, secondary school, perhaps some even in college, do not quite understand the importance of this legislation. Those that are participating in athletics, in soccer, basketball, whatever, probably assume this is the way it always was and that opportunities for girls and women were always assured under our democracy, under our Constitution, under our concepts of the 14th amendment, 15th amendment, and so forth.”