Chris Dodd said "We anticipated that this might be one of the arguments that would be raised, and asked the Department of Health and Human Services to tell us exactly what the status of child care spending by the States is. I think this graph here states it well. My colleague from New Mexico just pointed out that 98.8 percent of child care funds have been obligated, but in addition, by January of this year 90.6 percent of funds had actually been spent. So the notion somehow that states are not spending the available child care money is not valid. I appreciate the Senator raising this point, but according to our latest data, the States have already spent pretty much 90 percent of available child care dollars. And they have obligated, of course, virtually 100 percent of it, which demonstrates, I think, a clear need out there." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 31, 1998

We anticipated that this might be one of the arguments that would be raised, and asked the Department of Health and Human Services to tell us exactly what the status of child care spending by the States is. I think this graph here states it well. My colleague from New Mexico just pointed out that 98.8 percent of child care funds have been obligated, but in addition, by January of this year 90.6 percent of funds had actually been spent. So the notion somehow that states are not spending the available child care money is not valid. I appreciate the Senator raising this point, but according to our latest data, the States have already spent pretty much 90 percent of available child care dollars. And they have obligated, of course, virtually 100 percent of it, which demonstrates, I think, a clear need out there.

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Chris Dodd

Democratic · Connecticut

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the status of child care spending by states.

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