Chris Dodd: “This amendment ensures that critical children's programs will be protected from harmful cuts. President Bush, as we all…”

“This amendment ensures that critical children's programs will be protected from harmful cuts. President Bush, as we all know, campaigned on the promise to leave no child behind. If we heard it once, we heard it a thousand times during the campaign. Those of us who took this President at his word were dismayed, to put it mildly, by the news 2 weeks ago that he intends to pay for the tax cut by cutting programs affecting children's health, children's hospitals, child care, and child abuse prevention treatment programs. His actions certainly beg the question: When he pledged to leave no child behind, which children did he mean? Not abused and neglected children apparently because he would cut funding for child abuse by 18 percent.”