Patricia Schroeder: “it is very hard to take the well after such an emotional time. I think Americans all wish we could get on with business…”

“it is very hard to take the well after such an emotional time. I think Americans all wish we could get on with business and stop this kind of partisan fireworks, and yet today is the day where I think, if a lot of Americans knew what kind of business we were going to do, and we were really going to be giving them the business, they would want this partisan fireworks to continue. We are going to take up a balanced budget amendment. I say to my colleagues: ``When you read the rule, you will find out that in the Judiciary Committee we didn't have proper notice. As you know, the major amendments were never dealt with. We rolled it out here to the floor, and the very first thing we are going to do today is take up a resolution saying, `Oops. Well, we really don't mean Social Security to be included.' But if you think that resolution is going to outweigh a constitutional amendment, you're wrong. This kind of haste is going to make people very, very angry. You don't buy a car without looking under the hood, and don't buy this today. It really is not what you think it is.”