[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 18 (Monday, January 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SLUMBER PARTIES IN THE HOUSE

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, our new Speaker Gingrich certainly is 
not short of compassion.
  My colleagues, when I got up this morning and read today's Congress 
Daily, I was absolutely amazed because, as of today, the House office 
buildings become the House boarding and office buildings. Yes, Members 
of Congress can have sleepovers in their office. Now I do not know if 
the House restaurant is going to be extending room service, or whether 
the IRS is going to tax us for this, or maybe we have to sleep in our 
cars, because we have been taxed on that. All these questions have not 
been answered, and we do not know if we can bring our families, and 
whether there will be hall monitors for all of that.
  But the Speaker says he feels so very sorry that Members cannot live 
in Washington on $133,000 a year, so he extended this privilege for the 
first time in over 200 years of the House's existence.
  So here we go. I guess we can have a slumber party every night. It 
certainly is a new House.

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