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Continue Fighting for Equal Rights of Women

Floor Speech

Date: May 21, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Elections

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Ms. ESCOBAR. Madam Speaker, today, we recognize a historic day in our Nation, the 100th anniversary of the House passage of the 19th Amendment, which, once ratified, granted most women the right to vote, bringing them one step closer to equality with their male peers.

That ratification was 10 years in the making. Sadly, this pace of progress, this slow pace, is still all too common. Throughout history, women have had to fight for the same rights automatically afforded to men. Today, that fight continues.

As we stand on the shoulders of all the women who challenged convention, who fought and refused to quit so that we could be here in a moment where some 68 million women vote in America and the first two Latina women represent Texas in the people's House, our responsibility is to continue that fight against the erosion of women's rights that we are witnessing today and to fight for equal treatment and opportunity for all.

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