Patricia Schroeder: “I came to talk about what the gentleman from California, Mr. George Miller, and I did yesterday. Mr. Miller and I were…”

“I came to talk about what the gentleman from California, Mr. George Miller, and I did yesterday. Mr. Miller and I were both Chairs of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. That select committee is now gone. It has been put away. But when the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families was alive, it was a vigorous watchdog for children and for family votes. Yesterday the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] and I decided that in the spirit of what is happening this weekend in Washington, with tens of thousands of people coming to Washington tomorrow for the Stand for Children Rally, that we would look at the votes of the 104th Congress and rank the top 10 that would help children. Yesterday we released our report. We called it, ``Who's for Kids and Who's Just Kidding?'' The reason that we emphasized that is no Member of Congress has ever gotten elected saying they hate kids, and yet when you look at the votes, it comes out very differently. That is partly because we do not have a watchdog here anymore on these different votes pointing out the difference, and so people can kind of plaster over their votes with wonderful photo ops, with warm, fuzzy children and puppy dogs, and they can also give great speeches and rhetoric on family values, and then vote the other way when no one is looking.”