Barbara Mikulski: “I think we need to just get together among ourselves and discuss how reform starts with us, meaning the Senate and the…”

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.

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.

We are safe, we are secure, and we are undeterred.

It will be a proud day for our country when every girl who visits the National Mall is able to see herself represented amongst the giants of our national story.