Patricia Schroeder

It was changed in 1976. They had 3- judge panels from 1948 to 1976, and in 1976, the House and Senate changed it at the request of the courts. The courts today have written a letter, I am sure the gentleman from California [Mr. Bilbray]…

I keep hearing these allegations of forum shopping. My understanding is that the district that this went to had 25 Federal judges and they are randomly assigned. My question is, Does the gentleman have some evidence of forum shopping we do…

The gentlewoman knows that we always want to win it the first time, but I want to say also I want to make sure that people have those rights and they have the right to immediately go up, and I think the gentleman knows that all the Federal…

I think, if one does not win it in the first instance, as the gentleman also knows, one has an immediate right, if they think that that injunction was unfairly granted, one has an immediate right to move on that, and I think that is the…

Absolutely I am delighted, and I think the gentleman would admit that people do have that right to a three-judge panel. They could appeal it to the Court of Appeals, and of course in this case on 187 they did. So at this point they have…

I do not like doing an across-the-board cut either, but I agree also that when we are squeezing out of everybody the very last, last drop of blood in other programs because of this debt that is looming over our head that we are all…

So what the gentleman is saying there is while the upper 20 percent had been doing much better, obviously, than the lower 20 percent, with this tax cut we are forgetting even the upper 19 percent of that 20 percent. We are just going for…

One of the most profound and thoughtful statements I have ever heard, I say to the gentleman. I wanted to talk about the gentleman's charts for a moment because I thought they were so ominous. The way I read the gentleman's tax-cut chart…

I know that the ranking member on the Committee on National Security has spoken to the Speaker, has spoken to all sorts of people. We feel this is one of the most fundamental issues there, and we thought people had come here to debate…

Does that mean that no one else will be able to offer amendments? We have only got this 1 hour and 45 minutes and, as you know, I have a very, I think, important amendment dealing with immigration, which I do not even think should be in…

I really find it amazing that the Federal Government does not want to be under the same law as everyone else is. This would exempt 12 Federal facilities... from the laws that every other local government, State government and industry…

If indeed there is a threat to national security, particularly at those closed bases or the base that is being decommissioned... Why should we grant a blanket exemption under this bill when the President has the authority as Commander in…

As we all celebrate V-E Day and the wonderful generation that saved Europe from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, what are we doing to them? Well, the Republicans are trying to take their Medicare and slash it away. What a way to salute…

They raided it, they gave it away, and now they are screaming to the President, ``Rescue us, rescue us from our own craziness.'' If you remember, when these tax cuts went into effect, the Speaker attacked the same budget director who came…

I just wanted to say that my point was, No. 1, Members did not know that the House had yielded to the Senate on this issue when this bill came to the floor. This was portrayed as a bill in which we were trying to help people get their tax…

Is the gentleman saying the stories then in the press are incorrect, because they say they are validated?

One of the other things I find really amazing is that he could be so successful, that this little $63 million jewel could roll off the table, and he just did not even really have to pay much attention to it. It must be nice. Think of the…

We still have child labor laws as I remember, right? So the gentleman's point would be if we wanted everybody on welfare to work, we better quickly repeal the child labor laws.

It is going to go for tax cuts for the richest and disaster relief and it is going to create a huge disaster downstream.

It is right at your front door. But I think you are absolutely correct, with the water at your front door, for which there would be a great temptation to say yes, the feds should pay for this and cut any program that there is, you are…

While I chaired the Committee on Children, Youth and Families, I do not believe we ever had one person come in and complain, one person, about the management of the feeding programs for children and for WIC and for others. And I was…

Could I ask the gentleman another question? I think it is good to clear the airways that are cluttered with a lot of noise. The other issue being the women, infants and children's programs. And I know that we have worked very hard to get…

So if we are looking at the two insurance companies, then the question becomes, which one should have to pay, which one's premium should have to go up, and I think it should be the defendant that should have to go up, and I think the…

If joint and several is so terrible, then joint and several liability should be removed for both compensatory and noneconomic damages, and it is not. They are keeping it for one and taking it away for another, which is saying that family…

As I stand here looking at things that States have done that make sense to me, I am saddened. When you see people saying we ought to get kingpin drug dealers that are out pushing drugs to young kids and we ought to be able to get them in…