Barbara Mikulski: “We couldn't believe that in the United States of America, a little boy, a little boy would die because he couldn't have…”

Your leadership in placing the Women's Suffrage National Monument on the National Mall will expand our Nation's understanding of American women's leadership.

As the longest serving woman in congressional history, I proudly stand on the shoulders of the suffragists who fought bravely and boldly for generations to secure women's political equality.

I just want to comment. On June 4, we are going to hold our hearing on the FBI budget request.

Without a monument to the great women of American history who paved the way for us to fully participate in and shape our democracy, the telling of the American story on our National Mall is not yet complete.