Patricia Schroeder: “I was very troubled by the Chair's ruling, and I am going to tell my colleagues why. My understanding is, what we are…”

“I was very troubled by the Chair's ruling, and I am going to tell my colleagues why. My understanding is, what we are debating is the martial law rule which gives the Speaker the right to bring any resolution to the floor whenever he wants to, waiving all the rule and normal procedures. Now if that is true, I absolutely do not understand the Chair's ruling that something here is not germane. I would think under the martial law rule, everything would be germane because it goes to any resolution the Speaker could bring to the floor, and I think what this resolution is really about is so they can get out of Dodge, as we would say out west. It is: 'Let's get out of Dodge. It's getting hot in Dodge. Things are warming up in Dodge.' Whatever it is that we are not allowed to say, the R word, the report, but we are not allowed to say it. Oops, sorry, the it word. Whatever it is, the hundred pages downstairs is starting to smell. So we have got to get out of Dodge. Now the problem is, the very first vote when this body reconvenes is going to be for the next Speaker. Think how it is going to smell then. I think everybody ought to vote 'no' on this rule. What in the world is the hustle to run away from this place at 100 miles an hour?”