Patricia Schroeder

I find that fairly astonishing, that they tell us we can go outside and talk about it, but we cannot talk about it on the floor.

Editorials all over America are joining those of us who keep calling for the release of whatever it is that was produced by the outside counsel for over a half a million dollars of tax money on Speaker Gingrich's violations of the ethics…

I find it amazing that we cannot come to this House floor and discuss the chief officer of this House and different violations that have been alleged of this chief officer that has put a cloud over this House. I find that astounding. I…

I wanted to inquire about the suffragettes who are still in the basement of the rotunda, who have been down there since 1921. I understand that the funding has now been procured privately to raise them up to the first, to the main floor…

I was really pleased to hear the Speaker say he did not have an objection to it, and was wondering, since it appears to have been cleared and so noncontroversial, could we get it out and could we get it passed?

I just wanted to respond that in the Wright case it took 2 weeks to get a special counsel, and in the Gingrich case we talked about 15 months. I think there is a great difference. Thank you.

I guess the question is, how long does it take for a reasonable investigation? Our problem is 2 years seems like a very long time. In the past, and we can bring those charts to the floor except they probably would be ruled out of order…

I was concerned about the words ``shameless demagoguery.'' I think those are words we could have taken down, and I do not really want to do that. But I think that is a very strong word.

You show me an American woman who tells you that rape is not a serious bodily injury, I want to see that person come forward. I think it is shocking that we would have males sitting on the court of appeals that would say that…

But that ``it'' cost a half a million dollars and we cannot see it. This morning's Washington Post has a clarification of what the Speaker said about the ``it'' in it. And I hope that everybody reads it, because while the Speaker said one…

Today free speech has been frozen on the House floor. I never thought I could live to see that day. We have now had a ruling today that newspapers can discuss these issues, editorial boards can discuss these issues, but the Members of this…

I must say, for me this is a very sad day, because if my colleagues really believe we need the best government money can buy, they must be thrilled. Let me put this in some kind of context. My average campaign contribution when I first got…

I rise to agree with what the gentleman had to say. Mr. Chairman, I tell this body that the gentleman from California is being very humble. He has worked very hard on this issue, and so has the Department of Commerce. We have a letter…

I just want to say to people who continue to think it is real cute to object to her being able to bring this up: This is wrong. This is how women in this body are treated by the other Members. We are not equal. You would not do this to…

The reason I feel the EEOC is very different from other regulatory agencies is we have piled a bigger and bigger workload on them. If we are going to pile a bigger workload on a regulatory agency but treat it the same as SEC when it has a…

I came to this floor to talk about this historic vote yesterday when all the judiciary Republicans voted unanimously against defining marriage as a nonadulterous, nonmonogamous relationship. I found that shocking. Mr. Speaker, yesterday…

I thought of one more thing. The gentleman has such an active mind, but there is also the threat of the debt. We could decide not to spend it at all and assign it to the debt.

Basically, what I said was it was the figure that was utilized in the coalition budget, which was the administration plus 3 percent. This does not exempt, but what the purpose was, was to make sure that there was adequate pay for the pay…

I just wanted to state that the President of the United States did apologize yesterday, and I think it is very important to have that on the record.

I mean I love this. These two gentlemen from Washington are here saying, as my colleagues know, ``The best defense is a good offense.'' Look, we cannot be outraged about the agriculture budget, because it is not here today. If it is here…

Could I ask the chairman further, if my amendment were to pass, and there is still some money left in this carryforward account, could they not use that this year to make up any critical shortfall?

To the average person this sounds absolutely nuts, that we are giving an increase to an agency that we just learned had this surplus.

It is pretty astounding to me that they could have gotten rid of this this fast when we just learned about it this past week, learned of the magnitude of it. The way I read this is that they said originally they thought there were $2…

First of all, if the gentleman is saying we are going to have a very significant amount of money taken away if my amendment passes and we freeze it at this year's level, what we are really admitting is we are really giving that agency a…