[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 46 (Monday, March 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3052]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  AMERICA'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND WOMEN

  (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 know all of us today want to 
congratulate the new freshman Congresswoman from Utah, as she and her 
husband announce that she will be expecting a new baby. This will only 
be the second Congresswoman who had a baby during her term of office, 
the first being Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. She did a terrific job, so the 
precedent has been laid. And I know all will go well.
  I particularly appreciate what the Congresswoman from Utah said in 
that she said this was no big deal. Over 60 percent of the women in 
Utah with small children were working outside the home and so that is 
what American families are doing today.
  I also hope the gentlewoman from Utah brings that up to the chairman 
of the Committee on Ways and Means who was in the Wall Street Journal 
this week saying they had to get the Tax Code fixed so that women could 
stay home in their proper role and take care of children. That may be 
the world he would like, but unfortunately that is not the world the 
economic system allows.
  So congratulations to her, and we will all do a lot of reeducation, 
we hope, on some of the Members who still have not gotten it yet.

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