Boehner's blow for equal rights: A restroom for female members just as convenient as the men's. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) UPDATED Female members of Congress will finally get their own restroom just off the House floor -- and just when the lines were about to get shorter anyway! Speaker-to-be John Boehner announced Wednesday night he's ordered the Architect of the Capitol to transform space currently occupied by the Office of the Parliamentarian into a women's restroom. Until now, only congressmen have had a bathroom break convenient to the House floor; female members have had to trek across Statuary Hall to their loo in the Congressional Women's Reading Room. Ah, he wants them back in their seats faster for votes, huh? Boehner called it a "long overdue" change "as we continue to open up the people's House." (A House committee last spring explored potty parity across all federal buildings, even for
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