[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 27, 1994]
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                       CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

  (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, I just wanted to advise the House that 
one of the things that the Congresswoman are working so hard on has now 
moved forward one step and we are very pleased about that; that is, 
child support enforcement.
  I want to really acknowledge the gentlewoman from the District of 
Columbia [Ms. Norton] because she kicked out the whole part on Federal 
employment. What that part says is that people who are in arrears in 
child support cannot get Federal jobs or Federal benefits without 
showing a plan and committing to that plan as to how they are going to 
pay that arrearage.

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  I think Americans are ready for people to start taking responsibility 
for their own children. When we see that over $34 billion a year in 
child support is not collected, everybody is saying we have to do 
everything we can.
  The Comprehensive Child Support Enforcement Act of 1994 will do this. 
We have spent 3 years trying to figure out how to do this, and I think 
it is wonderful that the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia [Ms. 
Norton] was the first to report this out. We hope that every other 
committee in the House will get this out, and we can do some welfare 
prevention around here and try to do everything we can to hold 
America's children economically harmless when the family comes apart.
  So I challenge all of the rest of the committees to catch up with the 
Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.

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