[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 189 (Wednesday, October 27, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5937]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                NUCLEAR FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk one more time about 
the reconciliation bill that may be before us very soon.
  We began this session with a great electoral victory for Black Lives 
Matter, who on their website said we disrupt the western prescribed 
nuclear family structure.
  First of all, I think that is just insulting because we have nuclear 
families all over the world. But in any event, I look at the 
reconciliation bill that is now before us, and it looks to me like a 
payoff to people who want to discriminate against the nuclear family.
  Whether you look at the earned income tax credit, all the additional 
money in low-income housing, or the increase in Pell grants, they are 
all additional money that will be disproportionately very difficult for 
nuclear families to access.
  I strongly reject voting for this bill because in the future we must 
no longer punish people who decide to live in nuclear families.

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