Gingrich became the first speaker reprimanded by Congress. Republicans were livid after Schroeder and others filed an ethics complaint over House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s televised college lecture series, charging that free cable time he received amounted to an illegal gift under House rules. Schroeder said Hebert thought the committee was no place for a woman or an African American, and they were each worth only half a seat. Edward Hebert, D-La., organized the panel. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., the first African American, when committee chairman F. She was the first woman on the House Armed Services Committee but was forced to share a chair with U.S. She announced three months later that she would not run and said her "tears signify compassion, not weakness." Her heart was not in it, she said, and she thought fundraising was demeaning. In 1987, Schroeder tested the waters for the presidency, mounting a fundraising drive after fellow Coloradan Gary Hart pulled out of the race. My Life in Politics,″ which chronicled her frustration with male domination and the slow pace of change in federal institutions. Her parting shot in 1998 was a book titled "24 Years of Housework. Schroeder helped forge several Democratic majorities before deciding in 1997 it was time to leave. Despite her seniority, she was never appointed to head a committee.
Schroeder was elected to Congress in Colorado in 1972 and became one of its most influential Democrats as she won easy reelection 11 times from her safe district in Denver.
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