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Pat Schroeder

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U.S. Congressman

The Resume

    (July 30, 1940-March 13, 2023)
    Born in Portland, Oregon
    Birth name was Patricia Scott
    Represented Colorado's 1st Congressional District (1973-97)
    Democrat
    Famously dubbed Ronald Reagan 'the Teflon president'

Why she might be annoying:

    She fills in the 'P' in her signature with a smiley face.
    After graduating Harvard, she took a job with the federal government because a professor told her that few corporations would hire female lawyers.
    When she was elected to the House, fellow Congresswoman Bella Abzug, upon learning that Schroeder had children aged two and six, told her 'I don't think you can do the job.'
    She brought her diaper bag onto the floor of Congress.
    When she cried upon announcing that she had decided not to run for president (1988), she was criticized by feminists, who felt that her emotional display undermined the chance for other women to run.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She earned a pilot's license and operated a flying service to pay for college.
    She gave birth prematurely to twins who died (1968).
    When a male Representative asked how she could simultaneously be a member of Congress and mother of two young children, she replied 'I have a mind and a uterus, and I use both.'
    She sought a seat on the previously all-male Armed Services Committe, noting 'When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.'
    She was a fiscal conservative who outranked Republicans such as Jack Kemp on the National Taxpayers Union's scorecard.
    She received the Tomahawk Club's Sam Rayburn Award for government service (1996) -- twenty years after being ejected from the then all-male Club's awards banquet.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 73 Votes: 49.32% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 17.65% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 26 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 152 Votes: 73.68% Annoying