Patricia Schroeder: “I rose earlier to commemorate this wonderful stamp that is going to be coming out on August 26 that is going to…”

“I rose earlier to commemorate this wonderful stamp that is going to be coming out on August 26 that is going to celebrate women having had the right to vote for 75 years in this country. I must say as we see these women in the stamp marching down the avenue with men who supported them demanding the right to vote, I would be a little leery if I were a Member of Congress, because I think after 75 years women are learning how to use that vote and women are going to be very angry about what this Congress is doing to women and children. Last week we saw a good example where in the prior Congress there had been a unanimous consent on the Violence Against Women Act, that we really had to get aggressive and do that. It passed this House unanimously. There was not one vote against it. Last week, after first attempting to zero out the funds, we finally had to get excited and be very grateful because we got 50 cents on the dollar. We have ignored it all these years, we know violence is very critical,and it is especially bad when children are learning it in the home--when they are learning it in the home, good luck ever undoing it--so we really made that commitment but we really did not mean it, and if it had not been for the Congresswoman, we would not have even gotten 50 cents on the dollar, because they were quick to say, OK, well, we voted for it, but we do not have the to fund it and it will slip away.”