Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
DO NOT UISE Portraits of Congresswomen on wall
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Representative Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado) The highest number of women we ve ever had here was 20 in 1964. Hip hip hooray, its 83 and we now have 21. We gained one.
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
A meeting of a women's congressional caucus. Representative Lindy Boggs (D - Louisiana) What it will do is to make certain that within the jobs bill there will be $150 million in the social services block grant that s an add on to what s already in the social services program.
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Representative Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado) Now in the jobs bill I think we ve made some changes in it that are positive. And the women have been to see the leadership - so many times that I think if we come one more time, they re going to throw something at us - saying, yes fixing potholes are important but home health care is equally as important. And somehow when the jobs bill comes up you only focus on the potholes. We don t want to be in front of potholes, but we d like to at least be equal to potholes.
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Representative Olympia Snowe (R - Maine) I think that sometimes it s a consciousness raising session. And we as women have to explain what the impediments are being a woman, having been a homemaker for years and all of a sudden finding herself out in the workforce
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Representative Barbara Mikulski (D - Maryland) There is a gender gap. And what is the gender gap? It is Women are voting differently than men because women are not only voting for their rights, but they re voting for their values
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Cokie Roberts wraps up women s issues report.
Lawmakers - 2/24/1983
Paul Duke and Linda Wertheimer discuss progress of Social Security Reform, a compromise on the Social Security Commission s recommendations looks set to clear the House Ways and Means Committee. Discussion of the provisions of the bill. The bill will ensure Social Security for a few years, the long-term is still unclear.