the philadelphia enquirer quoted the argument of mr. little of kansas that women were working in the war effort, of course, that made a big difference. he said, "they were forced to to their own livelihood due complex demands of a complex civilization." and, he said, "women already had the vote in his state of kansas," and "no homes have been distracted due to political disagreement." [laughter] probably not true today. the amendment was passed, of course, with the votes of men only. the year before, jeanette rankin had been on the floor to vote, and someone put flowers at her place. she opened the debate for the amendment, but she lost in her bid for the senate in the next election. so as i look around today and see these powerful women, and i think how things would have been different if they had been here, speaker pelosi would have rounded up the votes, no problem. senator mikulski would have even found a way to slip some federal money to the suffrage organizations. [laughter] congresswoman lawrence and lesko continue in the traditio

last august 9, when i co-published -- little innocuous, i'll bet, in "the enquirer," the "philadelphia enquireror so, i regarded it, called "paying the price for the breakdown of a country's bourgeois values." and in it, my co-author, larry alexander and i talked about this bourgeois script that i had mentioned to you, some basic precepts of behavior and how the loss of common fealty and adherence to those behaviors as the hallmark of mature adulthood, which we had identified as taking place over the past 30 or 40 years in our country, and the concomitant, resulting change in behavior, had we thought inflicted some damage on our country, not being, of course, the only thing happened, but something that was important, that -- in effect, that standards of behavior had declined and that all of us were paying the price for that in various ways. and some of the behaviors we'd talked about was respect for law, criminally, which has leveled off to some extent, although there's question of whether the figures are accurate, but certainly saw a tremendous surge in the 1960's and 1970's, to much higher le

the philadelphia enquirer recently did a story called shot and forgotten. which i encourage everyone to read. partly in response to that story, senator kasey and i introduced the resource for victims of gun violence act. we have 62 co-sponsors in the house and i encourage all members to sign on. we must make sure that victims get the help they need. so, doctor, why is it imperative that we provide resources for those affected by gun violence? mr. wintemute: because they're suffering. people who have been shot face long-term physical and psychological disability. the people around them face trauma, as we've heard, and are impaired in their social and emotional lives. entire communities are adversely affected. i would argue there's a moral imperative that we would provide those resources. let me double down. i think there is a moral imperative that we provide support for research. there is no such thing as intervening effectively with a complex health problem without understanding it. we don't fly blind when we go after breast cancer. we don't fly blind when

it reminds me of a philadelphia enquirer piece i read back, i think in the late '80s about the ptl clubn, i think we grew up in the same church. you grew up in the southern baptist church, as did i. but i think you may be too young to remember the rise and fall of the ptl club? i certainly don't. my grandmom watched them every day. but, man, what i read yesterday in politico magazine just smacks of jim and tammy faye bakker and what we started hearing about the ptl club in charlotte back in the late '80s. >> well, you know, i am a bit young to remember it as in watching the news and really knowing what was going on, but in the book, i actually did a little research on that and talked about all of the pentecostal scandals of the '80s. you know, it was usually sex and money and corruption and things like that. and what's interesting about jerry falwell jr. is the more we find out about him, the more he's cut from the same cloth as trump, in terms of the way he views business and views using groups of people to get what he wants. because the problem for me is, the moral majority under his