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There are 76 female representatives in the United States House of Representatives. And now they won’t have to truck all the way through the chamber, Statuary Hall and a reading room to use the washroom.

USA Today reports on the opening of the sanitarily named Room H-211, which is the first women’s bathroom to be placed near the House chambers in nearly 50 years:

Since 1962, the House’s female members have had to walk from the chamber through Statuary Hall to use the bathroom in what is known as the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Reading Room, named for the former Democratic House lawmaker from Louisiana.

The men of the House have facilities just steps away from the chamber’s floor, right outside what’s known as the Speaker’s Lobby. The women in the U.S. Senate got their own restroom near the Senate chamber in 1993.

And who is getting the credit for this stroke of genius? Speaker John Boehner, of course, who somehow found time in his schedule of pushing vouchers on the District and walking away from debt negotiations with the President to make the “long overdue” change to give the ladies of the House a more accessible place to do their business. And obviously, the female members’ of Boehner’s party are just thrilled with the Speaker’s attention to their needs:

“It’s terrific to have this here,” said Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, who said that women had long been inconvenienced by having to race off the floor and race roughly the length of a football field during five minute votes to get to the restroom. “It’s a great facility for us to have after all these years here. And it took a male Republican speaker to do it.”

Yup, you’ve come a long way, baby.