[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          A CALL FOR OPENNESS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted we stayed in session 
because I think this is a very tragic, tragic, historic day.
  First of all, I must say we heard comments about we had to get on to 
the people's business. I must say if there were some people's business 
today, no one on our side knew it because the schedule we were handed 
said pro forma. That usually means they did not have anything 
scheduled. So if there was something, we were the last to know.
  If there is some people's business, I hope the people on that side 
would tell us what it is that we are supposedly delaying. But I must 
say, I am very troubled to see what has happened to truth in this 
Chamber today.
  We came here hoping there was going to be much more openness. We 
heard all these stories about openness and debate and all of that, and 
so far we have constantly seen people choked and gagged and cut off 
over and over again.
  Today, I see that as one more example. I am very concerned about how 
we are going to proceed if we cannot bring issues to this floor and 
debate them openly and in the manner that we have in the past.

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