[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 77 (Thursday, May 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H5653-H5654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SPENDING ON CHILD CARE

  (Ms. DUNN of Washington asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN of Washington. Mr. Speaker, last week the White House rapid 
response team got another one wrong. Clinton adviser George 
Stephanopolous actually said that the administration opposed the 
Republican bill in Congress because it cuts too deeply into child care. 
``We've been willing to have flexibility,'' he said, ``but we cannot 
agree to cuts in child care.''
  Mr. Speaker, are Republicans cutting child care? Well, to borrow a 
phrase from John McLaughlin: wrong. Let us talk reality. The current 
Republican welfare plan based on the bipartisan Governors' proposal 
calls for $4.5 billion more in mandatory and discretionary child care 
spending than the Clinton plan.
  Here is the bottom line, Mr. Speaker: Republicans provide more 
funding for child care in our welfare plan than does the President in 
his, and making up excuses to oppose welfare reform does not help a 
single child escape the welfare

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trap and does not provide a single mother the help she needs to find a 
job.
  President Clinton is in dire need of sensitivity training for hiring 
a pollster who also is employed by an accused rapist.
  Mr. Speaker, while we are signing up Clinton administration officials 
in classes, someone should enroll George in remedial math.

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