(11) In 1964, Patsy Takemoto Mink became 
the first Asian-American woman elected to the 
House of Representatives, representing Hawaii’s 
Second Congressional District from 1965 to 1977 
and again from 1991 until her death in 2002. 
(12) Patsy Mink secured an assignment to the 
Committee on Education and Labor, for which her 
previous expertise and interests made her well-suit-
ed, and used her time on that Committee to intro-
duce the first child care bill, as well as bills to pro-
vide for bilingual education, student loans, special 
education, and the Head Start program. 
(13) Patsy Mink gained passage in 1965 of leg-
islation to support the construction of schools in the 
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 
(14) Patsy Mink established the Democratic 
Women’s Caucus in 1995 and served as its first 
chair. 
(15) In 1968, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm 
made history by becoming the first African-Amer-
ican woman elected to the House of Representatives, 
representing New York’s Twelfth Congressional Dis-
trict until her retirement in 1983. 
(16) Shirley Chisholm was a founding member 
of the Congressional Black Caucus, a fierce advocate 
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for women’s rights and democracy, and a staunch 
opponent of the Vietnam War. 
(17) Shirley Chisholm was an outspoken advo-
cate for equal rights, early childhood education, fair 
labor standards, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. 
holiday effort. 
(18) Shirley Chisholm further cemented her 
place in history when she became the first African- 
American person to seek a major political party’s 
nomination for President in 1972. 
(19) There is a real need to honor these women 
and others like them more often in our Nation’s ar-
tistic and cultural venues. 
SEC. 3. SPECIAL POSTAGE STAMP. 
In order to afford the public a convenient means by 
which to contribute towards the acquisition (for public dis-
play in the United States Capitol and other appropriate 
locations) of works of art honoring Jeannette Rankin, 
Mary Teresa Norton, Patsy Mink, Shirley Anita St. Hill 
Chisholm, and other female pioneers in Government serv-
ice, the United States Postal Service shall provide for the 
issuance and sale of a semipostal in accordance with sec-
tion 416 of title 39, United States Code, subject to the 
following: 
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(1) DISPOSITION OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED.—All 
amounts becoming available from the sale of the 
semipostal shall be transferred by the Postal Service 
to the Capitol Preservation Commission and the 
House Fine Arts Board (which is hereby authorized 
to accept any such amounts) under such arrange-
ments as the Postal Service and those entities shall 
by mutual agreement establish in order to carry out 
the purposes of this Act. 
(2) NO
EFFECT
ON
AUTHORITY
TO
ISSUE 
OTHER STAMPS.—No semipostal issued pursuant to 
this Act shall be taken into account for purposes of 
applying any numerical limitation established under 
section 416(e)(1)(C) of such title 39. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘semipostal’’ has the meaning 
given such term by section 416(a)(1) of title 39, 
United States Code; 
(2) any determination of the ‘‘amounts becom-
ing available’’ from the sale of the semipostal shall 
be made in accordance with section 416(d) of such 
title 39; 
(3) the term ‘‘Capitol Preservation Commis-
sion’’ means the United States Capitol Preservation 
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