[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 23 (Friday, February 4, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PENALIZING NUCLEAR FAMILIES

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, as we go on recess for a couple of days, 
I want to call, one more time, attention to Robert Rector's article in 
The Heritage Foundation talking about the one group in America that is 
genuinely discriminated against: the hardworking middle class with a 
nuclear family with a dad.
  As Rector points out, changes made in the Build Back Better Act, 
particularly a lot more money for low-income housing, will create up to 
a $14,000 penalty that nuclear families will face when the husband and 
wife get married as opposed to a single family.
  This is true, and this does not include other things such as, for 
example, Pell grants. I know the Democrat Party wants to give free 
college to illegal immigrants, whereas if you are a child with a mom 
and dad at home working, Madam Speaker, you have to go deeply in debt.
  I strongly want people in this institution to focus on the nuclear 
family, a sizeable segment of the population, and stop discriminating 
against them. Give them the same things that the more favored classes 
get.

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