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# Here Are the Women Republican Candidates Would Put on the $10 Bill

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## Video: Know Right Now: U.S. to Put Woman on 10 Dollar Bill

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_Published 2015-06-18. The Treasury Department is planning on putting a woman on the redesigned 10 dollar bill by 2020. Watch Know Right Now to find out more._


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## Daniel White


Sep 17, 2015 3:32 AM UTC

The Treasury Department is planning on putting a woman on the redesigned 10 dollar bill by 2020\. Watch Know Right Now to find out more. 

by 

[Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/)


## Daniel White


Sep 17, 2015 3:32 AM UTC

Moderators finished the Republican debate Wednesday by asking the candidates which woman they would put on the $10 bill.

Here’s how each of them responded:

**Rand Paul:** Suffragist Susan B. Anthony, suffragist

**Mike Huckabee:** His wife, Janet

**Marco Rubio:** Civil rights activist Rosa Parks

**Ted Cruz:** Put Rosa Parks on the $20 bill and keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10

**Ben Carson:** His mother, Sonya

**Donald Trump:** Rosa Parks

**Jeb Bush:** Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

**Carly Fiorina:** “We shouldn’t change the $10 dollar bill or the $20 dollar bill. I think, honestly, it’s a gesture. I don’t think it helps to change our history. What I would think is that we ought to recognize that women are not a special interest group. Women are the majority of this nation, we are half the potential of this nation and this nation will be better off when every woman has the opportunity to live the life she chooses.”

**Scott Walker:** American Red Cross founder Clara Barton

**Chris Christy:** First Lady Abigail Adams

**John Kasich:** Nobel Peace Prize-winner Mother Teresa

**Read Next:**[_Read the Full Text of the Second Republican Debate_](http://time.com/4037239/second-republican-debate-transcript-cnn/)

[**_Who Should Be the First Woman On a Modern Dollar Bill?_**](http://time.com/money/3060472/first-women-dollar-paper-money-obama/)


## Transcript

[00:00] [ MUSIC ]
[00:23] Finally tonight, there's a movement afoot To put a
[00:25] prominent American woman on the twenty. Women on
[00:28] Twenties is pushing to get Andrew Jackson replaced
[00:31] With a female American hero. And you can vote on the
[00:35] fifteen famous women from American history [ MUSIC ]
[00:45] This historic endeavour has been years in the making.
[00:48] The new 10 dollar note will be unveiled in 2020. Four
[00:51] our hundredth anniversary the passage of the
[00:53] nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to
[00:55] vote

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