Sidney Yates said "I do not know how many women Members there are of the House at the present time, but I think there must be about 50. And I believe that the House has made and the country has made progress in that respect, because I consider that the women Members are among the ablest Members of the House and they make a real contribution. I think the speech that the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson) made last week on female contraceptives was one of the great speeches I have heard during my career in the House of Representatives. And I am pleased that if the Republicans want to follow the rule that the Committee on Rules voted out, that they had the good sense to select the gentlewoman from Connecticut to offer the funding for the NEA amendment, because I think she is so eminently qualified in so many respects." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 21, 1998

I do not know how many women Members there are of the House at the present time, but I think there must be about 50. And I believe that the House has made and the country has made progress in that respect, because I consider that the women Members are among the ablest Members of the House and they make a real contribution. I think the speech that the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Johnson) made last week on female contraceptives was one of the great speeches I have heard during my career in the House of Representatives. And I am pleased that if the Republicans want to follow the rule that the Committee on Rules voted out, that they had the good sense to select the gentlewoman from Connecticut to offer the funding for the NEA amendment, because I think she is so eminently qualified in so many respects.

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Sidney Yates

Democratic · Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the contributions of women in the House of Representatives.

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