Patricia Schroeder

I am absolutely delighted with Newsweek because you know what it says? Here we have this wonderful picture of Shannon Lucid and it said: Forget the fighter jocks. At 53 years of age, Shannon Lucid has the new right stuff. To be in space…

I thought the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Lewis] made a very emotional and correct approach. There comes a time when we all must stand up and say, what are these rules for? Are they to keep the American people from learning the truth? I am…

It certainly looks to me like we are checking all the regular procedures. We want to run away as fast as possible. The question is, what are we running from? I am very saddened, because I think this is what we are running from. We are…

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.

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…

There was in the past century a man named Mr. Comstock, and Mr. Comstock was one of these people who decided only he knew what was virtuous and right, and somehow he managed to convince all sorts of people that this was correct. He even in…

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 was very troubled by the Chair's ruling, and I am going to tell my colleagues why. My understanding is, what we are debating is the martial law rule which gives the Speaker the right to bring any resolution to the floor whenever he wants…

I am amazed. I think it is time we start calling the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct the admonishment committee. Yesterday they issued admonishment No. 6 for our Speaker, and they went on to say in there, which I find really…

I wanted this body to hear what the gentlewoman said because that has been our position all along. We do not wish to hurt good mothers. That was the President's position. That is still our position. I was the one who went to the Committee…

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 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 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 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 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.

I have always thought it was a shame that we had not done more on energy independence so we did not have to be in the Gulf anyway. One of the problems we have is we are not defending great democracies. I have been very upset about how the…

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…

I am here today, first of all, to say that over the weekend I was very pleased to hear the Speaker say he had no problem with reporting to the floor the bill that I have been pushing for a very long time. That is a bill that takes the…

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…

I clearly rise in support of this bill, and I really want to thank the chairman of the subcommittee, Carlos Moorhead, from California, who has done such a wonderful job to move this bill in the very short period of time we have left. We…

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…

today the New York Times lead editorial talks about this House and its stalling on ethics. This is shameful. The New York Times points out that the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is supposed to meet today, and it goes on to…

This amendment is about burdensharing. It is a very key amendment, because it basically only asks that when the President engages in the rest of the reporting requirements, that they also report to the Congress what percentage of the…

I want to tell you, I really admire this woman astronaut. We put her up in space and we seem to forget to bring her back. This poor soul has been trapped up in space for a very long time. Now it appears that the hurricane is delaying…