Patricia Schroeder

I do think when we are looking at this whole issue of takings, we have to look at the whole picture. I think everyone knows that if the Army Corps of Engineers is helping protect your property from flood, there is a value to that. I go…

I am terribly concerned about what this does on the Colorado Water Compact. The Colorado Water Compact has been around for almost 90 years. We are obviously upstream and there are many States downstream that count on us to send allocations…

actually the concept of this amendment is really fairly simple. It is rather a taxpayer protection amendment to make sure there would be no double-dipping under the takings requirement we are debating today. Mr. Chairman, we all know that…

What the Colorado Water Congress apparently decided was basically this 73-year-old compact would implode because there would be nothing to stop when the Federal Government will not have to pay.

I think, though, it is much more specific than the gentleman thinks, in that it says any increase in value to the property.

We have, and I think it is right, in the farm bill these incentives to be environmentally sane, is how we work on that. But then if we also say later on that the farmer can then also claim this as a takings while they are also getting----

That is exactly my point. You could do that and do the other, too, and I think you just want to make sure that you look at the whole thing, so you make sure someone is not double-dipping. This is just a sensible anti-double-dipping that is…

No, I was saying that under the 1985 farm bill, you could as a precondition for receiving farm subsidies in some areas, they were paying farmers not to plow under wetlands. So you would not want them to be getting money under that 1985…

The way I understand what my colleague is saying, he is saying if there is a mortgage deduction, everybody is benefited by an IRS mortgage deduction, so they could take that into account.

the problem is that everything changes, and they cannot negotiate anything. They cannot negotiate anything for change, because it would become a taking. Furthermore, because the water right is considered a property right, if the individual…

I must say as this body rushes this bill through to get out for the Presidents' Day recess, my guess is every prior President will be horrified and ask us to cancel the recess, because this bill goes to the very core, the very core of what…

Ladies and gentleman, antichoice violence is on a rampage in this country, and this is a federally protected right, federally protected right. But we are asking local law enforcement to protect it, and local law enforcement has become…

That is exactly what I thought the gentleman was saying. So, in other words, the gentleman wants to get some of this money go to help protect these reproductive clinics, and what the gentleman is saying is he wants to amend it so that it…

I end where I began, looking at this chart. Mr. Chairman, the right to have access to family planning clinics is a Federal right. It is a constitutional right. Mr. Chairman, I feel badly if we have violence outside clinics, but we are not…

I think the women's health clinic is absolutely essential to have in there, as they have in there, have because it is a Federal constitutional right that is eroded. But I find this really very, very interesting, and it is fascinating how…

I hope the gentlewoman looks at what we did do in committee. One of the good things we did was we had added language that would allow money to go to help with domestic violence, violence against women, and so forth, but we did not do this…

today I and Representatives Collins of Michigan and Morella of Maryland are reintroducing a bill that would make it illegal to mutilate women in the name of tradition. The practice is called female genital mutilation, a painful ritual that…

first of all, today I am going to be introducing legislation with the gentlewoman from Maryland [Mrs. Morella] and the gentlewoman from Michigan [Miss Collins] on female genital mutilation. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to put my…

So then I kind of hear that as the answer is ``no.'' Let me say the one thing I worry about the gentleman's amendment not being inclusive enough also on is that the gentleman says in and around any facility or location considered by the…

I say to the gentleman, if you look at these clinics, you will find that it is a very, very small percentage of what people are doing. Basically, they're going for family planning information, for mammograms, for breast checks, for Pap…

I think that this crime bill is a very, very interesting issue, and for anyone watching this, it must be very confusing to hear one side saying one thing and the other side saying, 'No, that's not right, it's just the opposite.' So where…

Reclaiming my time, I feel bad that we cannot get agreement to add it here as freestanding, because at that point I think we can prevent having an amendment later on. The reason I feel that way is the gentleman from New Mexico and I seem…

If I may reclaim my time, I do not think we are communicating. What I am saying is clearly what I want to do is send a strong message from this Congress to local officials that with this money comes the ability for them to then have no…

I take the floor today to proudly say I support Dr. Foster, and I am anxiously awaiting the first moderate Republican who does not live in Tennessee to join me. I think what has happened to Dr. Foster is absolutely scandalous. There has…

But their problem is that what has happened is, as the gentleman knows, is that this is a constitutionally protected right, but localities have been under seige because of people going beyond just passive--no one has any problem with free…