Patricia Schroeder

I rise as one who was born in Portland, OR, loves the forests of the Northwest and am very saddened by the fact that we are not going to be able to do anything to reverse the clear-cutting provisions, that are taking them down so much…

I rise today to urge the American people to please read the minority report coming out of the Senate today. It is terribly important. It is the minority report being filed by the ranking member, Senator Sarbanes, the summary of conclusions…

it is summertime. When most Americans hear ``Everybody in the pool,'' they think it is a great cry to join in the fun. But we have been hearing pleas for health care reform from the other side of the aisle, and they are absolutely right…

I came to this floor to talk about this historic vote yesterday when all the judiciary Republicans voted unanimously against defining marriage as a nonadulterous, nonmonogamous relationship. I found that shocking. Mr. Speaker, yesterday…

Will the Pentagon be exempt from the cuts which we are going to exact on every other part of the Government as we move toward a balanced budget in the year 2002, something that is absolutely essential to the economic security of our…

I just wanted to state that the President of the United States did apologize yesterday, and I think it is very important to have that on the record.

basically, what I said was it was the figure that was utilized in the coalition budget, which was the administration plus 3 percent. This does not exempt, but what the purpose was, was to make sure that there was adequate pay for the pay…

I thought of one more thing. The gentleman has such an active mind, but there is also the threat of the debt. We could decide not to spend it at all and assign it to the debt.

Members of this body, my amendment is really quite simple. It is different from the one that was in the Record because I just amended it to make it in line with the distinguished gentleman from Florida's amendment, the manager's amendment…

Mr. Speaker, actually the fact of the matter is a lot of us on this side of the aisle, and none of us on that side of the aisle, voted to cut the deficit in half in the first year of the Clinton administration by putting a gas tax on. One…

In Colorado, this is gold. This is the wonderful jersey of the Avalanche who last night won all of our hearts by winning the Stanley Cup in four straight games--four straight games. And this was their very first season in Colorado. Now, my…

the words are flying again on Medicare and Medicaid. Here we go. It must be an election year. What do you think? Look, the American people are pretty smart about this issue. When the leadership on the other side, one of them said he was…

I am delighted to be following the prior gentleman onto the floor, because I want to talk a bit about the gender gap and how I think they still just do not get it. America's women are engaging in a gender gap because they are very…

I rally thank the wonderful citizens around America who came this weekend to stand for children. We have heard some speeches this morning about how the best thing we can do for children is not run up a debt. That is absolutely right. We…

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…

I must say this is an issue about values. We are talking about the dignity of work. That is one of the main principles this country has been founded on. Let me tell my colleagues there is no dignity to work if you do not get paid a living…

Could I ask the chairman further, if my amendment were to pass, and there is still some money left in this carryforward account, could they not use that this year to make up any critical shortfall?

it is pretty astounding to me that they could have gotten rid of this this fast when we just learned about it this past week, learned of the magnitude of it. The way I read this is that they said originally they thought there were $2…

First of all, if the gentleman is saying we are going to have a very significant amount of money taken away if my amendment passes and we freeze it at this year's level, what we are really admitting is we are really giving that agency a…

I want to say that I will be equally as outraged when we get to that item on the floor. I promise the gentleman. I do not like misspent money anywhere. I think that is why Americans are so angry with us, is that we come in and we become…

the issue is that the money was not spent, and then it forced us to spend a tremendous amount of money just on interest on that additional debt we incurred by spending more than we really needed to spend at that time, when we build up an…

To the average person this sounds absolutely nuts, that we are giving an increase to an agency that we just learned had this surplus.

I have always believed that government is not a fungus, that it can thrive in sunshine, and I understand that during the whole period of the Cold War we wanted to keep this number secret. But I think now we ought to be able to get this…

the point is we are only going after this one part of the budget. This is the one agency that had the fiscal meltdown. We are holding it level at this year's amount. Yes, of course, we need satellites but we also need language skills…

I mean I love this. These two gentlemen from Washington are here saying, as my colleagues know, ``The best defense is a good offense.'' Look, we cannot be outraged about the agriculture budget, because it is not here today. If it is here…