WASHINGTON – The Democrat-led House of Representatives voted 374-37 Tuesday to build a women's history museum on the National Mall.
Thirty-six Republicans and Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., voted against the measure.
"Women have been left out of the telling of the nation's history," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., one of the bill's sponsors, said on the House floor.
"This is about giving women, all women our rightful place in history," said Maloney, who noted the lack of national landmarks or textbook entries dedicated to women.
The measure, which has the bipartisan support of 293 cosponsors, would establish a women's history museum within the Smithsonian Institution and make steps toward the construction of a facility. It would also create a council that would make recommendations to the Smithsonian Board of Regents for the design, planning and construction of the museum, as well as for the location of the building on or near the Mall.
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Although the bill does not authorize any funding for the construction of the museum, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates appropriations for the museum would cost $375 million over the next decade based on a size estimate of 350,000 feet and previous costs of Smithsonian museum construction.
Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., who co-sponsored the bill, said the museum would ensure her children and "future generations understand the impact that our women have had."
Brooks observed the "record-breaking" number of women elected to Congress in 2018 and urged other members of Congress to support the bill.
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Maloney's office said she first introduced legislation to establish a women's history museum in 1998, and her bill to create a commission studying the necessity and feasibility of a women's history museum passed in 2014.
The Smithsonian's newest addition is the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in September 2016, though Congress passed the original legislation to create the museum in 2003.
The bill will go to the Republican-held Senate for consideration if it passes. A companion piece of legislation was introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, in March of last year but has not progressed through the Senate.
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