[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12205]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            DRIVE-BY DEBATE

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Madam Speaker, one of the prior speakers said that I 
came to the floor yesterday and I was very angry about how 
dysfunctional this House has become, and I am. I am, angry the tenor of 
this debate. It is like drive-by debate. People stand up on each side 
and go blah, blah, blah, and back and forth and back and forth. The 
American people have every right to deserve more.
  Let me tell Members what this is about. This is not about whether or 
not we have a balanced budget. It is how we have a balanced budget.
  The President says we will have a balanced budget by standing for the 
American values of continuing education, environmental cleanup, helping 
our seniors. That is what it is.
  They have to take money from them because they made pledges to 
special interests. But forget what I am saying, because I just am 
engaging in the drive-by debate. Let us say that a picture is worth a 
thousand words.
  Here we have from the Cincinnati Inquirer, not exactly a liberal 
paper, the Speaker taking food away from the children because there 
good friends who want a tax cut have not had enough. It says, ``I need 
your pie back. They are still hungry.''

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