this is an image of victoria woodhall as the first woman to address the house judiciary committee, and she did go to advocate for women's suffrage. she said, and other suffragettes at the time, made the same argument, that the 14th amendment gave women the right to vote because it guaranteed that they were citizens, and she made the argument that voting is a right of citizenship, therefore the 14th amendment granted that right to vote to women. and theately for her rest of women, the house judiciary committee did not buy that argument. the petition was tabled and nothing further happened at that time. section right over here in the section called "the vote" is about one of the amendments it was proposed to expand voting rights that failed. themugh there are five of to the constitution that have expanded voting rights, in 1978, the congress proposed by a 2/3 vote of both houses a new constitutional amendment that would have given the residents of the district of columbia the right to vote. d.c. residents don't have that right because as residents of a federal district, they do not have