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Congresswoman Lee Announces Guest for President Biden’s State of the Union Address

February 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) announced her constituent, Misty Tzugaris, as her guest to President Biden's State of the Union Address to Congress on Tuesday.

Misty is a mother, a teacher, and one of the thousands of women who shared her personal abortion story following the Supreme Court's widely unpopular decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June. Tuesday will mark the President's first address to Congress since that Supreme Court decision and the first under Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is leading ongoing efforts to further restrict a woman's right to choose and even ban abortion nationwide. In July of last year, Congresswoman Lee shared Misty's personal story and spoke out in defense of a woman's right to choose on the House floor.

"I'm honored to have Misty as my guest to President Biden's State of the Union Address," said Congresswoman Lee. "In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning nearly 50 years of protections for a woman's right to choose, many women like Misty shared their very personal, private, and often traumatic stories. They shouldn't have to, but the reality is that this new Republican majority has made it clear that they will do whatever it takes to advance an extreme agenda of federal restrictions on abortion, including a nationwide ban. Misty and I will be sitting in the House chamber to remind Speaker McCarthy to keep his hands off our reproductive rights because it has real consequences for real women."

"I'm a mother, I'm a teacher, and I'm one of the millions of women in this country who has exercised a woman's right to choose when facing extraordinary medical circumstances," said Misty Tzugaris, Congresswoman Lee's guest to the President's State of the Union Address. "I am not alone. I am honored to be sitting in the House chamber representing the voices of the many women whose rights could be ripped away or already have been by an extreme political agenda. Kevin McCarthy will not silence us. We are going to be loud, share our stories, and stop his radical agenda to ban abortion nationwide. I am so proud of Congresswoman Lee's efforts to protect our most personal health care decisions."

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