[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             TITLE VII OF H.R. 4, CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

  (Mr. WELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, as one of the chief sponsors of the Family 
Reinforcement Act, I rise in strong support of the goals of the child 
support enforcement provisions in the Personal Responsibility Act.--Our 
welfare reform initiative.
  The strength of America's families is of utmost importance to the 
future of this country. We must act quickly and decisively to restore, 
encourage and protect our most fundamental unit of American society.
  I am here today to voice my support for the commonsense goals of H.R. 
4: reducing welfare dependency by ensuring that parents support their 
children; strengthening and streamlining the State-based child support 
system; and giving the States the tools they need to get the job done.
  Too many single-parent families have had no where else to turn but to 
resort to Government support programs--and too many children go to bed 
hungry or do without--all because their dead-beat parents outrun the 
current bureaucratic and time-consuming child support collection 
system. This has got to stop. Republicans are working to change our 
child support collection system.
  I applaud the child support enforcement goals of H.R. 4, and support 
its efforts.


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