S1872 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 21, 2018 clear that they are opposed to the bill. Without objection, it is so ordered. truth behind why Black men were We shouldn’t be putting at risk vulner- The clerk will report the nomina- being lynched in the South. Ida B. able groups and small startups. tions en bloc. Wells’ work forced her from her home Given that, I believe that this bill, The bill clerk read the nominations in the South, and after traveling to which will clearly pass, will be some- of David J. Ryder, of New Jersey, to be New York and England, Ida settled in thing the Senate will come to deeply Director of the Mint for a term of five Chicago. regret. I will be opposing the bill. years; and Thomas E. Workman, of Among her many accomplishments, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- New York, to be a Member of the Fi- including helping launch the National ator’s time has expired. nancial Stability Oversight Council for Association of Colored Women and the The bill was ordered to a third read- a term of six years. National Association for the Advance- ing and was read the third time. Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to ment of Colored People, Ida B. Wells The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill consider the nominations en bloc. became an early pioneer in social having been read the third time, the Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous work, fighting for justice and equality. question is, Shall the bill pass? consent that the Senate vote on the Following her death, the Chicago Hous- Mr. PORTMAN. I ask for the yeas nominations en bloc with no inter- ing Authority, recognizing the need for and nays. vening action or debate; that if con- affordable housing for African Ameri- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a firmed, the motions to reconsider be cans in the late 1930s, began a project sufficient second? considered made and laid upon the to provide 1,662 apartments, two and There appears to be a sufficient sec- table en bloc; that the President be im- three story row houses, sitting on 47 ond. mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- acres of land in the Bronzeville and The clerk will call the roll. tion; that no further motions be in Oakland neighborhoods of Chicago. The legislative clerk called the roll. order; and that any statements relat- They were named the Ida B. Wells Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator ing to the nominations be printed in Homes. She certainly left her mark in is necessarily absent: the Senator from the RECORD. Chicago. Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Not far from my Chicago office, Ida The result was announced—yeas 97, objection, it is so ordered. B. Wells is among the 65 women hon- nays 2, as follows: The question is, Will the Senate ad- ored in the Chicago Women’s Park & [Rollcall Vote No. 60 Leg.] vise and consent to the Ryder and Gardens. The park also includes a YEAS—97 Workman nominations en bloc? beautifully moving monument called ‘‘Helping Hands,’’ recognizing the con- Alexander Flake Murray The nominations were confirmed en Baldwin Gardner Nelson bloc. tributions and legacy of Jane Addams, Barrasso Gillibrand Perdue f one of the world’s most influential so- Bennet Graham Peters cial reformers. Blumenthal Grassley Portman LEGISLATIVE SESSION In 1888, Jane Addams and her friend Blunt Harris Reed Ellen Starr visited a settlement house Booker Hassan Risch Boozman Hatch Roberts called Toynbee Hall in the slums of Brown Heinrich MORNING BUSINESS Rounds London, which provided a variety of Burr Heitkamp Rubio Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I services to poor industrial workers. It Cantwell Heller Capito Hirono Sanders ask unanimous consent that the Sen- sparked what would become their life- Cardin Hoeven Sasse ate resume legislative session for a pe- long mission helping the poor and Schatz Carper Inhofe riod of morning business, with Sen- championing the rights of all, includ- Casey Isakson Schumer Cassidy Johnson Scott ators permitted to speak therein for up ing immigrants, women, and children. Cochran Jones Shaheen to 10 minutes each. Jane Addams and Ellen Starr were de- Collins Kaine Shelby The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without termined to bring that model to the Coons Kennedy Smith objection, it is so ordered. United States, which was emerging as Corker King Stabenow Cornyn Klobuchar Sullivan f an industrial giant and in the early Cortez Masto Lankford years of an immigration boom. Tester WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Cotton Leahy Thune In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Starr Crapo Lee Tillis Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, during Cruz Manchin returned to Chicago and started Hull Toomey Women’s History Month, as we cele- House, the first settlement house in Daines Markey Udall Donnelly McCaskill Van Hollen brate the mothers, daughters, sisters, the United States. Its humble begin- Duckworth McConnell Warner and, for some of us, the granddaughters nings started by simply inviting people Durbin Menendez Warren Enzi Merkley in our lives, I would like to take a from the community to hear readings Ernst Moran Whitehouse minute and honor a few women from from books or look at slides of paint- Feinstein Murkowski Wicker my home State of Illinois. Young ings. They listened to those who came, Fischer Murphy During the nearly 170–year history of and it became clear that many of the NAYS—2 the New York Times, only about 15 to neighborhood’s women were in des- Paul Wyden 20 percent of its obituaries have been perate need for a place to bring their written for women. Earlier this month, NOT VOTING—1 children. So they started a kinder- the New York Times announced a new garten and daycare for working moth- McCain feature called ‘‘Overlooked,’’ cele- ers. As it expanded, Hull House helped The bill (H.R. 1865) was passed. brating the lives of people from under- prevent the exploitation of immigrants The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. represented communities. March, being living on the West Side of Chicago by GARDNER). The majority leader. Women’s History Month, the New York providing services such as housing, f Times started by publishing obituaries child, medical aid, educational, and vo- for 15 women who never received them. cational classes. EXECUTIVE SESSION The first on the list: Ida B. Wells. Now, In addition to her contributions in Ida is not from Illinois, but her incred- the field of social work, Jane Addams ible life’s journey brought her to Chi- was known as one of the leading EXECUTIVE CALENDAR cago near the end of the 19th century, antiwar activists in the country. Dur- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I where she lived until her death in 1931. ing World War I, she became the chair ask unanimous consent that the Sen- Born into slavery, less than a year of the Women’s Peace Party and presi- ate proceed to executive session for the before the Emancipation Proclama- dent of the Women’s International en bloc consideration of the following tion, Ida B. Wells was an intrepid jour- League for Peace and Freedom. Jane nominations: Executive Calendar Nos. nalist and a trailblazing activist in the Addams’ efforts to end the war earned 596 and 671. Civil Rights and woman’s suffrage her the 1931 Nobel Peace, becoming the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there movements. 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