[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 12 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CHILDISHNESS IN PROTECTING AN IMPERIAL SPEAKERSHIP

  (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 would just like to make the record 
straight on this, whether or not we are being childish. This morning I 
read a woman in Vienna was sent to prison for 3 months for criticizing 
Maria Teresa, who has been dead for 131 years, because the Austrians 
will not tolerate anyone picking on their royalty, dead or alive.
  We all say ``Aren't we glad we are Americans? That cannot happen 
here,'' except we now have a memo from the other side of the aisle 
saying they are going to stop all business here if we do not stop 
pointing out there are some really troubling conflict of interest 
issues that we have with the Speaker and his continuing fox hunt as he 
looks to what he is going to do with this book deal.
  That, to me, sounds like it is being childish. That sounds like a 
tantrum. It looks like a tantrum. I think there is a real question 
about who is being childish in protecting this imperial speakership.

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