Court helped to pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. Swalwell, to suspend the rules and adopt House Resolution we break away now and go to the house floor for one more vote. The clerk resolution reaffirming the house of representatives commitment to the orderly and peaceful transfer of power called for in the constitution of the United States and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and adopt House Resolution 1155. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recogn
This was the first of a twopart program. You can view this and all other american artifact programs on our website, cspan. Org history. Each week, American History tv is american artifact visits museums and historic places. Next we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of women in congress. In the second of a twopart program, we continue the story into the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. I am sarah elliott. I am the curator for the house of representatives. I take care of a lot of the artifacts, artwork, objects that document the houses rich heritage. I am the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. Which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a
Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation to all of you. So when we get to that point for questions, id like each of you to go to the microphone, line up behind the microphone to ask your questions. So let me introduce you to david perry, working at the university of minnesota. Hes a descendant of elizabeth. She was a historian and wrote a boom about book about feminism politics. David helped publish his mothers final book after the vote.
Biographical information on members, together data and historic lists and to conduct oral histories. We enter reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill. We try to tell the story of the house. It is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can connect with it at a humanly level. We do that through telling biographical stories or with clips from oral histories that give people a humans sense of a very large institution. Today, we thought we would try to do that by telling you about the history of women in congress. That is a this is a nifty piece of campaign ephemera. It is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. It is quite handy. It tells you what to do. Use this column when voting for clare booth luce. It has a little arrow, and how to make sure that you are pulling the levers. And Clare Boothe Luce wouldve been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. Her career had started as a writer and editor. She was a managing e
Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t