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Patsy T. Mink: “Wonderful. We had the opportunity to hear from Secretary Tommy Thompson the other day. He came and testified about the…”

On the recordApril 11, 2002
Wonderful. We had the opportunity to hear from Secretary Tommy Thompson the other day. He came and testified about the importance of child care. I want to say that I was very impressed with the passion with which he made his comments about child care, that you cannot have a national policy that requires work of single-parent families unless you provide adequate quality child care. So I think we have a friend there as far as the concept is concerned, but the mechanics of making this statement a reality for families is still short. It is not there. In our bill, H.R. 3113, we say that if the government is not able to find child care for a family that it is requiring work activity out of, then the family is exempt from finding work activity until such child care can be made available, and the clock stops. It seems to me that is simple justice.
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Patsy T. Mink
Hawaii
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Discussing the importance of child care in relation to work requirements for single-parent families.

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