[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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                   BARBARA BUSH SPEAKS OUT ON CHOICE

  (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, I take the well to celebrate one of 
America's great treasures and finest women, Barbara Bush, and say how 
glad I am she has finally been freed to speak her mind on choice. We 
thought all along she agreed with us on choice, and she finally has 
been able to say she thinks the government has no business in people's 
personal lives and medical lives, thank you very much. And thank you, 
Barbara Bush. I think had she been asked about today's crime bill, she 
would probably say, ``For crying out loud, pass it.''
  Let us get assault weapons off the street, get the violence against 
women passed, get prevention programs out there.
  Mr. Speaker, punishment only has not passed and all this business 
about pork is a bunch of hoo-ha. The other side's bill is to spend the 
same amount of money but spend it all on prisons as we have been doing 
for the past 12 years, and we know where it has gotten us.
  Mr. Speaker, thank goodness she spoke out. Let us listen to some of 
these reasoned voices in the heated debate today.

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