[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 159 (Friday, October 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10050]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN SHOULD MARCH TOGETHER
(Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include
extraneous material.)
Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, we are told that a million men will be
marching on Monday in this city, and we are told that the march is to
strengthen and rebuild families, but where are the families? They are
to be at home. This is to be a sex-related march with no women. It is
to be an age-related march with no children.
I think, Mr. Speaker, men professing to celebrate family in a family
free zone makes no sense. If women went off to spas saying they were
rebuilding themselves to celebrate family, they would be attacked. The
way we need to celebrate and build America's families is shoulder to
shoulder and marching together.
I certainly hope the organizers rethink and make this an inclusive
march of men, women, and children, marching together to rebuild the
family structure of America that is so desperately in need of
rebuilding.
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