[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 42 (Thursday, March 13, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1665-S1666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TEXT OF AMENDMENTS

  SA 2844. Mr. COBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 138, line 8, insert ``and whose family assets do 
     not exceed $1,000,000'' after ``size''.
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  SA 2845. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; as 
follows:

       On page 99, strike lines 16 through 20 and insert the 
     following:

     tivity described in clause (iii)).'';
       (iii) by striking ``, with priority'' and all that follows 
     through the period and inserting the following: ``. In using 
     those amounts for child care services, the State shall give 
     priority for services first to children with disabilities 
     from low-income families (whose family income does not exceed 
     85 percent of the State median income for a family of the 
     same size), then to children of families with very low family 
     incomes (taking into consideration family size), and then to 
     children with disabilities.''; and
       (iv) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(ii) Report by inspector general.--

       ``(I) In general.--Not later than September 30 of the first 
     full fiscal year after the date of enactment of the Child 
     Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, and September 
     30 of each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of 
     the Department of Health and Human Services shall prepare and 
     submit to the Secretary a report that contains a 
     determination about whether each State uses amounts provided 
     to such State for the fiscal year involved under this 
     subchapter in accordance with the priority for services 
     described in clause (i).
       ``(II) Penalty for noncompliance.--For any fiscal year that 
     the report of such Inspector General described in subclause 
     (I) indicates that a State has failed to give priority for 
     services in accordance with clause (i), the Secretary shall--

       ``(aa) inform the State that the State has until the date 
     that is the last day of such fiscal year, or 6 months after 
     the Inspector General has issued such report, whichever is 
     later, to fully comply with clause (i); and
       ``(bb) if the State does not so comply, by the date 
     described in item (aa), withhold 5 percent of the funds that 
     would otherwise be allocated to that State in accordance with 
     this subchapter for the first full fiscal year after that 
     date.
       ``(iii) Child care resource and referral system.--''
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  SA 2846. Mr. SANDERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care 
and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; as 
follows:

       On page 141, insert at the end the following:

     SEC. 13. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING CHILD 
                   POVERTY BY CALENDAR YEAR 2019.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that--
       (1) the United States has the highest rate of childhood 
     poverty among 34 major countries in the Organisation for 
     Economic Cooperation and Development, including Denmark, 
     Finland, Norway, Iceland, Cyprus, Austria, Sweden, the Czech 
     Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, South Korea, the United 
     Kingdom, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, 
     Malta, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Estonia, Belgium, New Zealand, 
     Poland, Canada, Australia, Japan, Portugal, Greece, Italy, 
     Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, and Bulgaria;
       (2) a record-breaking 46,496,000 individuals lived in 
     poverty in the United States in 2012, which is an increase of 
     14,915,000 individuals since 2000;
       (3) 16,073,000 children in the United States lived in 
     poverty in 2012, which is an increase of 4,486,000 children 
     since 2000;
       (4) more than 7,100,000 children in the United States, 40 
     percent of children living in poverty in the United States, 
     live in extreme poverty (defined as living in families with 
     an income that is less than half of the poverty level);
       (5) nearly 1,200,000 public school students in the United 
     States were homeless in the 2011-2012 school year, an 
     increase of 73 percent since the 2006-2007 school year;
       (6) in an average month in fiscal year 2011, 1,200,000 
     households with children in the United States did not have 
     any cash income and, for food, depended only on benefits 
     under the supplemental nutrition assistance program 
     established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
     U.S.C. 2011 et seq.);
       (7) in 2012, government assistance programs removed from 
     poverty 9,000,000 children, including 5,300,000 children 
     through the earned income tax credit under section 32 of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the child tax credit under 
     section 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and 
     2,200,000 children through the supplemental nutrition 
     assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition 
     Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.);
       (8) in 2012, child poverty would have been 57 percent 
     higher, and extreme poverty would have been 240 percent 
     higher, without government tax credits and food, housing, and 
     energy benefits;
       (9) in 2013, an individual working full-time at the Federal 
     minimum wage could not afford the fair market rent for a 2-
     bedroom rental unit and have enough money for food, 
     utilities, and other necessities;
       (10) in school years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, less than 
     half of children ages 3 and 4 were enrolled in preschool;
       (11) Early Head Start programs carried out under the Head 
     Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.) served only 4 percent of 
     the 2,900,000 eligible poor infants and toddlers each day in 
     fiscal year 2012, and Head Start programs carried out under 
     such Act served only 41 percent of the 2,000,000 eligible 
     poor children ages 3 and 4;
       (12) more than 220,000 children are on waiting lists for 
     child care assistance; and
       (13) child poverty costs the United States not less than 
     $500,000,000 each year in additional education, health, and 
     criminal justice costs and in lost productivity.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that the President should immediately present to Congress a 
     comprehensive plan to significantly reduce child poverty in 
     the United States by calendar year 2019.
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  SA 2847. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care 
and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; as 
follows:

       On page 120, strike line 12 and insert the following:

     preceding 5 years; or
       ``(E) has been convicted of a violent misdemeanor committed 
     as an adult against a child, including the following crimes: 
     child abuse, child endangerment, sexual assault, or of a 
     misdemeanor involving child pornography.
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  SA 2848. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 98, strike line 15 and insert the following:

     view.

       ``(U) Identification.--The plan shall contain an assurance 
     that the State will--
       ``(i) require, as a condition of eligibility for assistance 
     for child care services under this subchapter, that each 
     parent who applies for the assistance with respect to a child 
     furnish to the State the child's social security account 
     number (or numbers, if the child has more than one such 
     number); and
       ``(ii) check the number before providing the assistance.'';
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  SA 2849. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 98, strike line 15 and insert the following:

     view.

       ``(U) Identification.--The plan shall contain an assurance 
     that the State will--
       ``(i) require, as a condition of eligibility for assistance 
     for child care services under this subchapter, that each 
     parent who applies for the assistance with respect to a child 
     furnish each number for the child that is required under 
     section 1137(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1320b-7(a)(1)); and
       ``(ii) check the number furnished before providing the 
     assistance for child care services.'';
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  SA 2850. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Tester) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
1086, to reauthorize and improve the Child Care and Development Block 
Grant Act of 1990, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       On page 136, strike lines 16 and 17 and insert the 
     following:
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
       ``(1) General authority.--
       ``(A) In general.--From amounts reserved under subsection 
     (a)(2), the Secretary may make grants to or enter into 
     contracts with Indian tribes or tribal organizations that 
     submit applications under this section, for the planning and 
     carrying out of programs or activities consistent with--
       ``(i) the purposes of this subchapter; and
       ``(ii) the goals of the Native American Languages Act (25 
     U.S.C. 2901 et seq.).

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       ``(B) Effect.--Nothing in subparagraph (A) affects any 
     grant made or contract entered into under that subparagraph 
     before the date of enactment of the Child Care and 
     Development Block Grant Act of 2014.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following:
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  SA 2851. Mr. REID (for Mr. Bennet) proposed an amendment to the bill 
S. 1456, to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Shimon Peres; as 
follows:

       On page 4, line 18, strike ``in honor of'' and insert 
     ``to''.
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  SA 2852. Mr. REID (for Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. Kirk, and Mr. 
Lee)) proposed an amendment to the resolution S. Res. 376, supporting 
the goals of International Women's Day; as follows:

       Strike the twelfth whereas clause of the preamble.

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