[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H7537-H7538]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WELCOME TO REFORM ``WEAK''

  (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, the hard part is being to do this with a 
straight face because we are welcoming everyone to the Republicans' 
reform week. Yesterday in Roll Call, the majority leader said reform 
week was not meant to be ``floorcentric.'' Now what does that mean to 
people beyond the Beltway?

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  Well, ``floorcentric'' means to really do something on the floor. 
Apparently, all along, reform week was supposed to be about rhetoric, 
about fast-breeder, press-release reactors cranking out things on how 
much we care about reform, and everybody is allowed to go up to the 
third floor in the Committee on Rules where there may be a whole of 10 
public seats talking about how much they care about reform.
  Mr. Speaker, I think the idea is, if they say the word ``reform'' 
long enough, people will forget that this Congress has set the record 
on being by the special interests, for the special interests and of the 
special interests. That is very sad. We are in desperate need of a 
reform week. Roll Call is right. They are spelling week W-E-A-K.

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