[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 141 (Thursday, October 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H12268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 FAREWELL TO REPRESENTATIVE SCHROEDER AND STICKING UP FOR THE MILITARY

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman that just spoke is leaving 
this body and we are going to miss her. She has been a very valuable 
Member even though we have disagreed quite often. I happen to agree on 
this particular issue. I am just afraid that the way it was presented, 
that I know that she did not mean this intentionally but that it would 
criticize our military. The people that serve in our military, they 
usually start out when they are 18, 19 years old or after they have 
gone through college and ROTC, they become officers in any branch of 
the military, and they are some of the most respected people in all of 
America.

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  I think we always have to look at that, especially if they serve in 
the Pentagon, if they are the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They did not get 
there by having their integrity questioned.
  I would just like to stick up for them and say they are, to my 
knowledge, some of the finest people I have ever known, not only this 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, but all of those that have preceded them. I just 
wanted to say that for the record, and wish the gentlewoman good-bye.

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