[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 42 (Wednesday, April 5, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1460]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       CHILD CARE AND THE BUDGET

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise to highlight the cuts in the 
Republican budget resolution that target low-income children and women. 
A number of Federal block grants that help women, especially single and 
low-income mothers, are going to be forced to cut services to families 
as a result of these cuts in the Republican budget. Also, there will be 
continued flat funding.
  Child Care Development Block Grant funding is frozen for the fifth 
year in a row. Since the beginning of the Bush administration, child 
care assistance for 250,000 children has been cut. In the next 5 years, 
400,000 fewer children will receive child care assistance. This means 
that 25 percent fewer children will receive assistance in 2011 than did 
in 2000; and during the President's tenure the number of children 
living in poverty has increased, not decreased.
  This is an immoral budget. It sacrifices funding for our children to 
pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. It should be soundly rejected. We 
talk about welfare reform and we talk about women being able to work, 
how in the heck are women going to work if child care is not available.

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