Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1375) recognizing the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1375 Whereas full participatory rights by women are vital to democracy in the United States; Whereas the right to vote of all women in the United States was not guaranteed for 144 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed; Whereas the Women's Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, sparking a decades-long struggle by women's rights pioneers to gain the right to vote; Whereas a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage nationwide was first introduced in the United States Congress in January 1878; Whereas in 1919, the 66th Congress of the United States passed a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women; Whereas the aforesaid amendment was then ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Montana, Nebraska, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Utah, California, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Oregon, Indiana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Jersey, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Washington, and Tennessee; and Whereas, on August 18, 1920, the Tennessee General Assembly voted for ratifi…”