Marcy Kaptur: “I would like to express deepest condolences to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the passing of Jo Ann…”

“I would like to express deepest condolences to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the passing of Jo Ann Davis, our very, very respected colleague, from this life. To her husband, Chuck, to her two sons, to her granddaughter, we respected Jo Ann as a woman, as a Member, as a wife, as a mother, as a grandmother. We also respected her because she was an heroic Member of this Congress. There are some people in life who teach us how to live, and then there are those rare few who teach us how to die. Jo Ann Davis was such an individual. She held herself with great courage. As a woman, I might like to put on the Record that in the entire history of this institution there have been very few women that have actually served here. Out of a little over 11,000 Members of our Republic who have been elected to Congress, about 200 or so have been elected as women. And so we know that with every woman who is elected, a new page in history is written. Jo Ann Davis was a part of that new page in history of this Republic.”