Timothy Roemer: “I just want to rise and commend the majority and particularly the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey]. He and I have risen…”

“I just want to rise and commend the majority and particularly the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey]. He and I have risen to engage in a colloquy the last couple weeks to talk about a family-friendly schedule and, in particular, to talk about getting out tonight by 7 o'clock. I can see that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] is not only good on his word at 7 o'clock, he is an hour early. A number of families, Congressmen, Congresswomen have come up to me and asked me to end my poetic career by doing one more poem for the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey]. So I will do this and end in salute to him. Roses are red, Violets are blue. Thanks to Dick Armey, We are out of the stew. We are into the roses and maybe a sip of wine, A family-friendly schedule, it's about time. Mr. Speaker, we are delighted to have this opportunity to spend 1 night with our families, and we look forward to working with the majority in the future, especially after the first 100 days, to see that we can make this body more productive, more efficient and not necessarily working against scheduling time with our families.”