I am extremely proud of that fact, that Illinois is indeed leading the nation in those efforts.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, and hope that states will find a way to change that policy.

Ensuring that children receive financial support from both of their parents is a powerful and cost-effective way to fight child poverty.

the main reason for non-payment of child support is the non-custodial parent's ability to pay the full amount ordered

It is with great pride that I rise to pay tribute and honor the activities of the great First Lady, the first that I ever had the opportunity to know, and that is First Lady Rosalynn Carter, who was funeralized earlier today. As a young…

For children living in poverty, child support nearly doubles their household income.

It is also a tool to improve racial equity.

It recognizes that the primary reason for non-payment of child support is inability to pay, not lack of love.

Today's child support program directs the vast majority of collections to meet the immediate needs of children.

Child support makes children in our country better off in many ways.

I want to thank both the chairman and the ranking member of the Work and Welfare and Oversight Subcommittee for bringing together our two subcommittees to discuss how to strengthen child support enforcement program for the states and the…

I am particularly grateful for the work Vicki did with me and other Members of Congress to help incarcerated parents and non-custodial parents.

Currently, states do a great job of effectively running their child support enforcement programs, and current actions by the IRS threaten the states' ability to continue to administrate this vital program.

Every day we delay action, poverty poisons the future for millions of our children and for our nation.

Democrats stand ready. I stand ready to set an aggressive child poverty reduction target and hold ourselves accountable to restore income supports to strengthen families and cut child poverty.

The more effective approaches to dealing with trauma and how it impacts, would that be a beneficial activity for us to put more emphasis on to help reduce poverty?

This inability to govern has prevented us from doing our work for three weeks, despite an urgent need to keep our government operating, address the child care cliff, and stand by our allies.

I believe that child poverty is a moral emergency. It is inexcusable that children in the wealthiest nation in the world are growing up in poverty.

So the more comprehensive our approaches are, the more likely we are to see positive results.

It is shameful, quite frankly, that this Congress is not taking strong, immediate action to end poverty, using policies proven to work.

For years, structural racism has led to much higher rates of child poverty among children of color, especially Black children.

we are all in favor of waiving all non-fraudulent overpayments that came from the pandemic programs

we were outraged, quite frankly, that criminal rings stole unemployment insurance benefits during the pandemic

not a single Republican voted for these anti-fraud funds

I hope we can work together to persuade your colleagues to prevent a shutdown and continue the foster care-related programs under Title IV-B.