Patricia Schroeder: “while I am all in favor of raising the minimum wage, I take the floor today to salute a wonderful woman whose loss I…”

“while I am all in favor of raising the minimum wage, I take the floor today to salute a wonderful woman whose loss I will certainly, certainly feel, and I think all American women will, whether they are getting the minimum wage or whether they are working at home with no wage. Erma Bombeck's loss will really go to the heart of all of us. The laughter that we will lose because of her death really seems very sad. Mr. Speaker, Erma Bombeck made us laugh about all of the things that we live with every day: husbands' socks having so much fuzz on them you have to shave them, the green fuzz in the refrigerator that people kept asking about and then you were clearly trying to grow your own penicillin, all the problems you have with children who get dressed in the morning in some outfit that really looked more like a costume and you were afraid that somebody would think the child had been drinking before they even got to school. The problems and the advice that she had for all of us that were so terribly important.”