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Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 20, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Arts, Entertainment, and History

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Mrs. BEATTY. Madam Speaker, Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson; most people know them as the ``Hidden Figures.''

Well, Madam Speaker, I think it's safe to say they are ``hidden figures'' no longer.

Thanks to them and many other women, we were able to reach for the stars and put a man on the moon.

We honor these brave, brilliant women. They accomplished what many thought impossible and proved--to paraphrase Katherine Johnson--that ``Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they even have more imagination than men.''

In that spirit, I am proud to be a cosponsor of the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act and urge all my colleagues to support this resolution.

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