[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 8, 1994]
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          INTRODUCTION OF THE CHILD SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITY ACT

  (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, today I will be introducing, with a 
group of bipartisan Congresswomen, the Child Support Responsibility 
Act.
  We are very, very tired of the incrementalism in this area. We are 
very, very tired of seeing $34 billion a year being ducked in child 
support enforcement. We are also really tired of seeing parents using 
State lines for economic hide-and-seek from their family obligations, 
and say enough.
  We have taken the provisions from the U.S. Commission on Interstate 
Child Support Enforcement, and we have beefed them up. We have made 
them as tough as we can. We want this to be done now.
  Let us hope every Member gets on this bill. Let us pass this bill. 
This is the best thing we can do to prevent welfare in America.
  We cannot hold children emotionally harmless from the ravages of 
divorce, but if we pass this bill, we can hold them economically 
harmless, and that is the least we can do.

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