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James Norton: “this session the Congressional Women's Caucus has crafted a must-pass list of bills which we call the Magnificent Seven.…”

On the recordJuly 22, 1998
this session the Congressional Women's Caucus has crafted a must-pass list of bills which we call the Magnificent Seven. For the first time, the Women's Caucus, and we are now 55 women strong in this Congress, has chosen not a wish-list, but a real list for passage. Last week the second of the Magnificent Seven passed, the Lowey amendment affording contraceptive choices for Federal employees. The week before, sections of the Violence against Women Act, another priority, passed. That leaves five more, all carefully chosen consensus bills which every Member can support, from the reauthorization of the Mammography Standards Act, assuring safe machinery to detect breast cancer, to a Sense of the House Resolution encouraging the Federal Government to raise its support for the burgeoning number of women-owned businesses. There is no gender preference here. All Members can support these bills.
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James Norton
Ohio
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Discussing the Congressional Women's Caucus's legislative priorities during a floor speech.

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