The Honorable Donna F. Edwards
H.R. 863, the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a
National Women’s History Museum Act
May 7, 2014
Madam Speaker, I want to thank the gentlewomen from New York, from Tennessee, and from Wyoming for your leadership and for doing what women do in this Congress, which is work together toward a common good. So I thank you very much for your leadership.
Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 863, the National Women’s History Commission Act. It is a bill that would establish a commission to study the potential creation of the National Women’s History Museum right here in Washington, D.C., and, as has been stated before, not at any cost to the taxpayer.
It would showcase the contributions that women have made throughout our history, both in this country and around the world, contributions that have historically been underrepresented, to say the least, in books, museums, and other records of our Nation’s great story.
There are institutions, for example, in Maryland, the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center in Baltimore, that are really leading the pushback in our State against the void of women’s representation in our historical records. The Baltimore Heritage Center serves as a museum, an information resource center, and a gathering place for events focused on impacting girls and women. When I visited the Heritage Center, number one, they said to me, are you supporting the National Women’s History Commission Act?
