Patricia Schroeder: “I know all of us today want to congratulate the new freshman Congresswoman from Utah, as she and her husband announce…”

“I know all of us today want to congratulate the new freshman Congresswoman from Utah, as she and her husband announce that she will be expecting a new baby. This will only be the second Congresswoman who had a baby during her term of office, the first being Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. She did a terrific job, so the precedent has been laid. And I know all will go well. I particularly appreciate what the Congresswoman from Utah said in that she said this was no big deal. Over 60 percent of the women in Utah with small children were working outside the home and so that is what American families are doing today. I also hope the gentlewoman from Utah brings that up to the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means who was in the Wall Street Journal this week saying they had to get the Tax Code fixed so that women could stay home in their proper role and take care of children. That may be the world he would like, but unfortunately that is not the world the economic system allows. So congratulations to her, and we will all do a lot of reeducation, we hope, on some of the Members who still have not gotten it yet.”