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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress][From the U.S. Government Publishing Office][H.R. 655 Introduced in House (IH)]112th CONGRESS  1st Session                                H. R. 655To honor Susan B. Anthony by celebrating her legacy on the third Monday                               in February._______________________________________________________________________                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                           February 11, 2011 Mrs. Maloney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the               Committee on Oversight and Government Reform_______________________________________________________________________                                 A BILL To honor Susan B. Anthony by celebrating her legacy on the third Monday                               in February.    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.    This Act may be cited as the ``Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act''.SEC. 2. FINDINGS.    Congress finds the following:            (1) Susan Brownell Anthony created the first women's         movement in the United States and led that movement for more         than 50 years.            (2) Born in South Adams, Massachusetts, on February 15,         1820, Susan B. Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 and         attended her first women's rights convention in Syracuse in         1852, where she joined the fight to get women the right to         vote, arguing that ``the right women needed above every other .         . . was the right of suffrage''.            (3) The first proposal for women's suffrage was presented         to Congress in 1868.            (4) Susan B. Anthony appeared before every Congress from         1869 to 1906 to ask for passage of a suffrage amendment.            (5) Susan B. Anthony served as the president of the         National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900.            (6) Designated then as the 16th amendment, the first formal         women's suffrage amendment to the Constitution of the United         States was introduced in January 1878 and stated, ``The right         of citizens to vote shall not be abridged by the United States         or by any State on account of sex.''. This same amendment was         introduced in every session of Congress for the next 41 years.            (7) Before her death on March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony's         last public words were ``Failure is impossible.''.            (8) On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed         the 19th Amendment, and 2 weeks later, the Senate followed.            (9) On August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th         State to ratify the amendment, the amendment passed its final         hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the         States. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the         ratification on August 26, 1920.            (10) The text of the 19th Amendment is: ``The right of         citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or         abridged by the United States or by any State on account of         sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by         appropriate legislation.''.            (11) In 1921, a marble statue of Susan B. Anthony and her         women's rights colleagues, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady         Stanton, was dedicated in the United States Capitol.            (12) Susan B. Anthony's picture has appeared on two postage         stamps, the 3-cent purple stamp issued in 1936 and the 50-cent         deeper purple stamp issued in 1955.            (13) Susan B. Anthony's home in Rochester, New York, has         been a National Historic Landmark since 1966.            (14) In 1979, Susan B. Anthony was honored by having her         image placed on a dollar coin.            (15) No Federal holiday celebrates the birthday of a woman.SEC. 3. CELEBRATING SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S LEGACY ON THE THIRD MONDAY IN               FEBRUARY.    Section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking ``the third Monday in February'' and inserting ``the third Monday in February, on which day the Nation shall also celebrate the legacy of Susan B. Anthony''.                                 <all>