Patricia Schroeder

this August 26, we have this wonderful stamp coming out, celebrating women having had the right to vote for 75 years. In November 1996, you are going to watch women use that vote. They are also going to be using this stamp, I think, to try…

as we end this session, I want to show two pictures, because pictures are worth a thousand words, so they say. This is the picture of what we are going to be doing when we get to the Defense Department bill. Yes, it is very historic. For…

Mr. Chairman, I must say I cannot believe what Richard Nixon would think if he were here tonight to watch this program that he really tried to utilize to build a bridge, to build a bridge over an issue that people hate. We all hate the…

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…

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…

I was very pleased when this House last week passed the very important Stokes-Boehlert amendment, which did not undo all of the environmental regulations. There is a reason for environmental regulations. I am sending to every Member a copy…

I rose earlier to commemorate this wonderful stamp that is going to be coming out on August 26 that is going to celebrate women having had the right to vote for 75 years in this country. I must say as we see these women in the stamp…

I am very pleased to have this time as we close out July to talk about what we have to look forward to in August, and one of the great things we have to look forward to in August is this stamp, this 32-cent stamp will be coming out on…

I do not think the birds have a union. I have been listening to this debate thinking it is not worth getting into because it does not make any sense. My understanding is all this debate is about is an amendment to allow volunteers to be…

Mr. Chairman, I stand as a westerner to engage myself in this debate. Mr. Chairman, there seemed to be a protest from the other side that there was nobody talking from the West. Colorado is from the West. I was born in the West, Oregon…

as time evolves we are seeing more and more about how things look and how things really are. I must say, as one of the people who has been very concerned about the Violence Against Women Act, because I think living rooms in America and…

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…

Mr. Chairman, I must say I rise to discuss the amendment by the distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary because I know he has given this very serious thought. But I think I come down on the other side and say maybe this is…

I take the floor to talk about a very serious promise that I think has been broken. Early on, we heard a lot of people talking about how wonderful it was that we were going to have open rules, open rules when we discussed issues in this…

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…

it seems to me that what we would be saying is we want to be able to criticize, but do not give us any responsibility. I would think the American people would think that if the President decided we were going to take a side in the Bosnian…

Mr. Chairman, this is very historic, in that it is the first time this body will speak out and say that our government should recognize female genital mutilation as a major health risk to women and a major human rights violation, and we…

as we go home for Mother's Day, I think all of us know that mothers have that extrasensory perception about when people are fudging. Well, let me tell you, there is going to be a lot of fudging going on here about this budget. You are…

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…

I rise to say to Americans who believe that progress is preordained in this country, "Wake up." Because today we are going backwards. Today we are on a real slippery slope, and for people who thought we would always be able to have clean…

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…

I rise at this time to take the cowboy hat off the militia problem that the Speaker tried to put on it this weekend on national television. For any of you who were watching the Speaker this weekend on national television, he said, 'We have…

I would just like to talk a bit about some of the things that are in some of the newspapers today about the difficulties this House is facing as it forces itself to deal with the budget issue. For the last 4 years, we had the budget done…

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…