Mr. Speaker, many times in the House by legislative and constitutional means members have presented laws by example to get people to recognize that we should have sexual equality in this country. Yet, right outside of these doors during the months of August and September, a female engineer was harassed off the job by her subcontractor. We did not see any reaction in the House, or very little. Two hundred and ninety-five of us let this happen.
We did see to their credit her fellow workers put everything on the line. They walked off the job in protest leaving $165,000 worth of back pay, $15,000 or $18,000 worth of equipment here on the site, which public works will not let them take off.
We should be involved directly. This is our jurisdiction. This is happening under our eyes with our feet-