Patricia Schroeder: “the hard part is being to do this with a straight face because we are welcoming everyone to the Republicans' reform…”

“the hard part is being to do this with a straight face because we are welcoming everyone to the Republicans' reform week. Yesterday in Roll Call, the majority leader said reform week was not meant to be ``floorcentric.'' Now what does that mean to people beyond the Beltway? Well, ``floorcentric'' means to really do something on the floor. Apparently, all along, reform week was supposed to be about rhetoric, about fast-breeder, press-release reactors cranking out things on how much we care about reform, and everybody is allowed to go up to the third floor in the Committee on Rules where there may be a whole of 10 public seats talking about how much they care about reform. Mr. Speaker, I think the idea is, if they say the word ``reform'' long enough, people will forget that this Congress has set the record on being by the special interests, for the special interests and of the special interests. That is very sad. We are in desperate need of a reform week. Roll Call is right. They are spelling week W-E-A-K.”