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She, you know, she was absolutely committed to making sure that a robust Title IX would be possible. But, 

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just before the vote, or as the vote was beginning to transpire, just as, you know, as the—whoever was in the Speaker's Chair said the "Clerk shall call the roll," 

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my mother was pulled off the floor with an emergency phone call 

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telling her that I had been in a terrible automobile accident in Ithaca, New York, where I was in graduate school. And so,

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she left without voting, encouraged by her colleagues, you know, "Go, go, go, you know, go take care of your daughter." 

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So, she ran out of the Capitol and grabbed my father, and they caught a plane to Ithaca. 

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And the result of that was that the people who wanted to veto the regulations, the robust regulations, won by one vote. 

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And so, that was like the beginning of the end of the kind of scope of equality that Title IX eventually came to promise.

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And luckily, the kindness of Speaker Albert, the, 

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I don't know, sort of pressures, perhaps, from other quarters in, in the House, 

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invited the House of Representatives to cast a re-vote on the issue when my mother was able to leave the hospital and return to her duties in Washington, D.C. 

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So, a re-vote was called. And,

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after some people got up and said things like, "Oh, she's such a nice daughter," as their explanation for changing their vote, 

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the good guys won on the second vote by like, I don't know, nine or ten, or a dozen votes.