[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 107 (Friday, August 5, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: August 5, 1994]
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          FAMILY LEAVE BILL MAKES AMERICA MORE FAMILY FRIENDLY

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, today I take the well to prove I really 
am a gentle lady, because the reason I like to come down here is to 
feed the words back of some of the Members that fought so hard against 
family leave. Now family leave has been in effect for exactly 1 year in 
America, and guess what? No companies have gone under, productivity has 
not dropped off, it has not become a complex thing to administer. There 
have been fewer than 1,000 complaints and almost all of them were 
solved by phone.
  Yes, America is much more family friendly. I honestly thing that 
people cannot stand up and say they are pro-family and then vote 
against all family-friendly legislation.
  Thank goodness the good buys won on this one and Americans for the 
last year have had a much more family-friendly workplace. Let us get 
on, let us do more, and let us measure these things against the facts 
rather than rhetoric.

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