Nancy Pelosi: “Today is Day Five of the House Republican leadership's campaign to kill the extension of the child tax credit. The issue…”

“Today is Day Five of the House Republican leadership's campaign to kill the extension of the child tax credit. The issue is very simple: The Senate has passed the child tax credit, the President says he will sign it, twelve million children in America need it, but the House Republicans want to kill it. The chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means says there is not enough time to meet in conference with the Senate. That reveals his true intent. He does not want this bill to become law. A conference with the Senate could take just 5 minutes. The House Republicans could simply stop their delaying tactics and accept the Senate bill in the House-Senate conference. The conference report would be quickly approved by each House and sent to the President, who, as I mentioned, has said he will sign it. But let us be clear, the House Republicans do not want this bill to become law. In the 12 days since the Senate passed its bill by a 94 to 2 vote on June 5, a strong bipartisan vote, 94 to 2, the Republican majority in the House has voted six times not to accept the Senate bill. Instead, the Republicans voted to send a bloated $82 billion bill to conference, which they know the Senate will not accept. It is not paid for, it is reckless, it is irresponsible.”