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Patricia Schroeder: “It certainly looks to me like we are checking all the regular procedures. We want to run away as fast as possible. The…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 1996
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 running from what the Atlanta Constitution is talking about, we are running from what many major newspapers are talking about. People who vote for this martial law are voting to just set off the guns so we can run. I would hope that folks would feel that this should be a deliberative body where we can discuss things, and especially deal with the cloud that is over this House, and is going to remain over this House until we act on that R word and get it up here, so we know what it is. Going home and saying we did not have time to read it is not going to satisfy us.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado
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Addressing concerns about the legislative process and the need for deliberation in the House.

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