[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10335]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS, NOT OF MEN

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address theHouse 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, these 1-minutes opened with the Speaker 
talking about an ice bucket, and then we went to the gentleman from 
California talking about historically how this House was dealt with 
every single issue dealing with conduct, no matter who the Member was, 
that we treated ourselves as a group that abided by laws, because that 
is the tradition of our country, a government of laws and not of men.
  But the one thing we have not seen and that we have now seen today is 
the Speaker forgot to tell us his recipe for ice, and that is to take 
anything that deals with him, add water, and freeze it, and you never 
let it come out.

                              {time}  1045

  Today free speech has been frozen on theHouse floor. I never thought 
I could live to see that day. We have now had a ruling today that 
newspapers can discuss these issues, editorial boards can discuss these 
issues, but the Members of this body who are most affected are gagged 
and frozen.

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