Rob Andrews: “I rise in sincere remembrance of a gentle soul and a good friend, Patsy Mink. I offer my condolences to her husband…”

“I rise in sincere remembrance of a gentle soul and a good friend, Patsy Mink. I offer my condolences to her husband John, daughter Wendy, and my thanks to the service that the entire family has given by permitting their wife and mother to serve this Nation. Patsy has gone from our lives, but she will touch the lives of so many people tomorrow whose names she will never know. Tomorrow there will be welfare mothers who will get up and have a first-rate child care center to take their sons and daughters to because Patsy Mink made sure that would happen. Tomorrow there will be young women who will have a chance to learn math or science or go on to engineering careers because Patsy Mink helped lead the fight to let little girls know that they could be anything they wanted to achieve in any discipline through her work on women's equity in education. Patsy Mink wrote title IX and made sure it stuck. Patsy Mink will touch my life for years to come.”