Sean Patrick Maloney: “We are appealing to you to release the ethics report and to release the women from the basement. As a New Yorker, I am…”

“We are appealing to you to release the ethics report and to release the women from the basement. As a New Yorker, I am anguished that the statute of our State's most distinguished leaders--Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott--have remained in the basement of the Capitol for the past 76 years. Mr. Speaker, almost every great struggle throughout American history is represented in the Capitol's rotunda, including the leaders of those revolutions, Lincoln, Washington, and King. Exactly 76 years ago American women gained the right to vote, but our great leaders still are not allowed in the living room to stand beside the great male leaders. Mr. Speaker, American women ask the same question they asked President Wilson: how long must we wait?”