Patricia Schroeder

First of all, let me explain to the gentleman from Illinois why these are called reproductive health care centers.

Mr. Speaker, I take the well not because I want to delay our departure, but because I think what we are doing with H.R. 7 is we are engaging in playing politics with one of the most important jobs we have here. That is measuring what we…

I think this should go fairly simply. This is about the National Institute of Justice, which many of us feel with this amendment we are going to be able to avoid many of the pitfalls that we saw with LEAA. This is basically a new group…

That is because most women of reproductive age get their entire health care through their reproductive years through these clinics.

What we do not want is localities to be able to use the resource scarce rule to protect women from a federally--from a Federal constitutional right, and if they are getting resources from the Federal Government, but then refusing to…

I come to the well to speak about something that troubles me a lot. I spent 3 years of my life, and I must say they were miserable years, studying the Tax Code when I was in law school. And the one thing that was very clear in our Tax Code…

I do not quite understand. You can have a lawful arrest and then defend yourself. But it would be a reasonably lawful arrest, and then the person could present what was really happening. It is not like you can only arrest a person unless…

Let me ask the gentleman, too, Mr. Chairman, from his history, does the gentleman have any idea what happens if a Member of Congress takes the well and at the beginning of each session, pledges to uphold the Constitution? Does anyone know…

I certainly hope everybody votes to uphold the Constitution. I think we have seen an awful lot of silliness, but one of the things every American says is their home is their castle, and your home is not your castle if anybody can come…

I just am pleased to come to the well right at this point, because I think it helps show why we feel H.R. 666 is a radical diversion from the Constitution and really is trashing it. Right now Americans are basically protected from illegal…

to anyone who is wondering why Public Citizen, Common Cause, and almost every other good Government group I know and many others are calling for outside counsel to investigate the growing array of special interest connections that are…

But let us think about how many minimum wage people are going to be at that dinner. I do not think there is going to be any there eating the dinner. There may be some serving the dinner because a minimum wage employee, if they work full…

I think every American would agree that one of the most critical health problems we have in this Nation is the raging incidence of teen pregnancy. I was very proud when President Clinton came forward with a nominee for Surgeon General who…

the message for today is that work should pay. I proudly stood with the President of the United States when he said we must raise the minimum wage. Right now, if you work on the minimum wage and you are lucky enough to have a job all year…

Today in China they are celebrating the first day of the lunar new year, the Year of the Pig, and we now find out from the New Yorker magazine that a big multinational pig is trying to feed over there the same way that pig has been trying…

our new Speaker Gingrich certainly is not short of compassion. My colleagues, when I got up this morning and read today's Congress Daily, I was absolutely amazed because, as of today, the House office buildings become the House boarding…

I tell my chairman I not only am not not going to vote for this resolution, I am going to do it; and I am going to go on and vote for a real amendment that says we are not going to let any constitutional amendment do it, because as a…

Mr. Speaker, last night, in an eloquent State of the Union Address, President Clinton asked Americans to forge a new covenant based on inalienable rights and solemn responsibilities. The President urged Members of this body to work…

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…

I must say, as I listen to this debate, I hear people accusing this side of the aisle of being political, and it would be much easier for us to say, ``Oh, let us just go along; let us just vote yes, let us take up this new idea of…

The reason that it does not matter how anybody votes on this is because this side of the aisle is going to go on and do the real thing. We are really going to take Social Security off the chopping block. Obviously, if Social Security were…

I hope the gentleman read yesterday's Newsweek story because I think that is why some of us on this side are so concerned. I hope that the gentleman reads that because I think if he reads that, he too will join us in saying there are some…

If I may reclaim my time, what I am asking is that we have an investigation of the Speaker's book deal with Mr. Murdoch.

today what I wanted to talk about was the fact that the gentleman from Connecticut, Chris Shays, and I and any number of bipartisan Members will be introducing today the Women's Right To Know Act. We feel that this is a very, very critical…

today Representative Chris Shays and I are introducing legislation with bipartisan support for the Women's Right To Know Act, a bill that unequivocally asserts American women's right to receive information about the full range of their…