Political Quotes

“I think the parliamentary choreography does not show what we just did. We are now, through a resolution cosponsored by Senator Collins and me, cosponsored by all the women of the Senate on both sides of the aisle, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health. Twenty-five years ago, on September 10, 1990, the Office of Research on Women's Health was established at NIH. It ensured that women were included in NIH-funded research protocols. It set research priorities, scientific peer review and scientific knowledge, and it promoted medical research. There were two outcomes that I am so proud of--No. 1, what we have done to improve women's health, and No. 2, we showed that a process of working on a bipartisan basis actually worked. This is not to tell old war stories about legislative issues. Twenty- five years ago women were not included in the protocols at NIH. There were many reasons given, most of them not scientifically reliable or accurate. Working together, Senator Nancy Kassebaum and I--the only two women in the Senate at the time--joined hands with the House-- Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, Connie Morella, and Senator Olympia Snowe--and we worked together to get legislation passed to get women included in the protocols, scientifically appropriate, and to establish the office of women's health.…”