Eva M. Clayton: “I particularly am interested in supporting the effort of encouraging women to take leadership roles in emerging…”

“I particularly am interested in supporting the effort of encouraging women to take leadership roles in emerging countries. I was pleased to be voting on the bill that allowed that to happen. I encourage also the whole enterprise effort of women who are now becoming the growing percentage of small business people, so those issues that would allow our families not only to be viable, but also to be businesswomen and to be striving as businesswomen, not just existing. I just want to bring up one issue, and I will conclude. That is the issue of child care. If we are going to talk about ability for mothers to go out to work, they have to be concerned about child care. I am introducing a bill where we will provide tax credit not only for child care, but also for the training of child care workers to make sure that we can assure quality child care for mothers who need that so desperately. So issues about income, issues about leadership and issues about our children and child care are very much issues about families, and I want to support that and urge my colleagues also to be ready to support those initiatives that come in.”