I walk into the US House, onto the floor of the House, and a lot of folks say, you know, what a mess. How awful. And I get that. But I also recognize it's the same House floor where somehow Abolitionists, emancipators, people that were enslaved, spoke up and somehow got the United States Congress to vote to pass out the 13th Amendment for its ratification to abolish slavery. They did that. Think about that. That's way harder than anything we're talking about over here, the 19th Amendment. In 1919, there weren't women on the House floor, but. (09:17–09:32)
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