Mr. Speaker. the loss of Edna Kelly. lifelong New Yorker. is a great one. Mrs. Kelly represented Brooklynand was the first woman to do sofor 19 years. She was an effective and articulate expert on both foreign affairs and domestic issues. A champion of NATO and an expert on Soviet Bloc countries. Mrs. Kelly also sponsored measures to help refugees and displaced people after World War II and helped create the Peace Corps program. She advocated for equal pay for equal work for women and for better womens access to child care. credit. pensions. housing and educational opportunities. Mrs. Kellys accomplishments were all the greater for the fact that she operated in an almost exclusively male political world.
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