Patricia Schroeder: “as we go into any election, one of the hardest things is to figure out where the candidates really stand on issues. And…”

“as we go into any election, one of the hardest things is to figure out where the candidates really stand on issues. And when we go into any third-grade class in America and we ask the 8-year-olds, ``Okay, what is the best predictor of what someone is going to do if they get elected, how they have been voting and what they have been saying or what they say in the last 6 weeks before the election?'' every third-grader in America will tell us that the best predictor is what they have been doing, not what they were promising as the heat turns up in the last few weeks. So the difficulty is to find out and to sort through that voting record. No one has ever elected a President or a Member of Congress or a Member of the Senate who was for big debts, loved war, hated kids, wanted to tromp all over the elderly, could not stand trees. No, no one has ever done that. So when we see the promises and then we see the performance, it is very different. I must say, after saying that, I am very troubled about the debate we have been having here on the floor today, because no matter who the candidate Bob Dole selects for his Vice President, his real Vice President is going to be the Speaker of the House.”