[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19657]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WHERE IS COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE?

  (Mr. COOPER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, this was a very important week in the House 
of Representatives. Hopefully we learned a lesson of bipartisan 
cooperation last night with the historic victory on the drug 
reimportation bill; and hopefully we also learned the dangers of 
arrogance, anger, and insensitivity when a House chairman had to 
apologize to this House.
  I hope that we apply these lessons to the child care tax credit 
today. We need to help the 12 million poor children waiting for that 
assistance. The Senate has voted 94-2 to help these children. The White 
House is for it. Only a small group in the House Republican leadership 
is opposing it. People of goodwill on both sides of the aisle want this 
relief to be granted today. Where is compassionate conservative? As one 
of the House Republican leaders said, ``It ain't going to happen.''
  Mr. Speaker, this House needs to get relief to these 12 million poor 
children.

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