Two women members of the US Congress, Jessie Sumner and Clare Boothe Luce, have expressed their disillusionment of US politics on announcing their retirement. "Congress is no place for a career girl," says Illinois Republican Representative, Jessie Sumner, who has had eight years in politics. "There's no point in having to put your career to the vote every two years, and frankly I don't see how my feminine colleagues in Congress can manage political work and husbands, too." April 9, 1945.