Patricia Schroeder

the question of who is for kids and who is just kidding sounds very playful, but this is not a playful question to ponder. This is really about the survival of this great Republic which we are so proud of, because we need to know which…

I think the gentleman is absolutely correct. They are saying that there is a life exception, but it is very cosmetic because the way I read the bill, it is that the doctor would have to prove there was no other medical procedure that would…

I take the floor first of all to say, in this month of women's history, how pleased I am that the President has made more history for women today. I thought the newspaper article was very, very exciting to talk about how the President has…

I am continuing to talk a bit about women in history since this is Women's History Month. One of the things I have been doing this month as I talked to people is I carry around a little shoe. It is no bigger than that, and it is a shoe…

I took the floor last week when we had this debate and said I felt like I was at the Groundhog Day movie. My colleagues know how every morning the alarm went off, the guy gets out of bed, and they run through the same day. But even in the…

the conventional wisdom is that Democrats do not talk about values, and so I guess the assumption is we do not have values. Well, maybe we have not talked about values because we felt we were voting our values, and we felt that voting our…

I have the great honor of serving on the House Committee on the Judiciary, and this has been a very, very difficult year, because we have had incoming missiles from every which way attacking affirmative action. I for one have been a…

This provision on habeas corpus that I was talking about was not even in the bill when it left the Committee on the Judiciary. I find it interesting that people now come to the floor and say this was the gut of the bill. If this was the…

I think every one of us as we drove home last night were absolutely shaken by what we heard happened in Scotland. I think if you look at the world's newspapers, you will find the entire world was shaken by that. Now, at this moment it…

every time I go out, people say, why can this body not be more bipartisan? I honestly do not think the problem is with this committee. We have just heard from the chairman and ranking member. They are not at each other's neck. Yet for…

I think it is unfair to just say he asks for flatout money. He has offered offsets. I think we would want the record to be clear on that. I think that many of these programs the gentleman is talking about are on the basis they have been…

it is springtime in America's schoolhouse but pink azaleas are not going to be sprouting. Instead, pink slips are going to be sprouting for America's teachers. When you see what the House Republicans are doing, every school district is…

I must say I hope Members think about the bill that we had under debate when the committee rose, because at this moment we still have the President in Egypt talking about terrorism, and what I think has happened is we have gutted the…

it is amazing. Never did I think I would be down here saying, ``Listen to the Senate,'' but here I am saying, ``Listen to the Senate,'' because they are speaking words we should hear here. Yesterday they voted 84 to 16, and they said very…

humorist Al Franken, in his book ``Rush Limbaugh Is a Big, Fat Idiot,'' I think was absolutely right. He points out how Rush plays so fast and loose with the facts, and, believe me, he did it again this week. For those of you who saw his…

I believe that when someone shows you their leader, they are showing you a part of their soul. I must say, our soul around here is pretty sick. I am one of the few people who voted against the last continuing resolution because it was a 20…

I just came to the floor because my calendar says it is March 6. My whole problem is I cannot figure out when we are going to get our work done. It seems to me, if it is March 6, that means we are almost halfway through this fiscal year…

I must say this is a day where all of us shudder at what is going on in the Middle East. While we were so optimistic about the whole peace process, today is a day where it looks like the terrorists are willing to risk anything to get it…

I must say, as a consumer, I used to knock the farm programs. But I must say I have really appreciated them because as we went through those terrible floods in the Midwest a couple of years ago and we have eaten up an awful lot of our…

I think if we go this entirely opposite way so we suddenly start paying people not to farm and not having the means test instead of doing the absolute reverse of it, when consumers figure this out, they are going to think we are absolutely…

I have always felt very strongly that if someone showed me their leader they had shown me a part of their soul. I think that is true of nations. When they show you their leader, they have shown you their soul, if that leader has been…

I am standing here to say to my colleagues there is no way in the world that I can read fast enough to get through these 6 pages of technical corrections that we received today, single-spaced, by the way, and the bill, and put it all…

I must say if this bill is being brought to the floor under sunshine and happiness, I am not happy. I think this rule should be defeated. I think it is outrageous this rule is waiving the 3 days so that we can look at it. I was on the…

this debate, I think, for people at home is very frustrating, except I think the people are a lot smarter than those of us in the Chamber, and they see right through it. They know what is going on here. They see people saying, we are not…

Well, let me finish, if you do not mind, because I do have a few things to say. I have asked others to yield and they do not. I remember the days when we used to yield, but I guess that seems to be over. I sit here and on one hand, I get…