Patricia Schroeder: “I will be very brief because the gentleman from Texas is being very kind. I am glad I got to answer these statements.…”

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…

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 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?

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…