John Shaw: “I rise to offer the Shaw-Camp-English amendment that is central to the Committee on Ways and Means' work on the…”

“I rise to offer the Shaw-Camp-English amendment that is central to the Committee on Ways and Means' work on the collection of child support. Under the leadership of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas), the Committee on the Judiciary has succeeded in not only maintaining existing child support priorities but in creating a new priority to help custodial mothers who are owed child support after bankruptcy. While the legislation creates a post-bankruptcy priority for child support, it does not contain a procedure for the enforcement of same. We are afraid that credit card companies will outperform mothers, especially poor mothers, in securing the father's money, the very money that Congress has determined should go first to the mothers and to the children. Our amendment is really just a perfecting amendment to the amendments already adopted by the Committee on the Judiciary. If the credit card companies obtain payments from the parents who owe past due child support, the companies are required to hold the payments and distribute the payments to the custodial mothers if they surface at a later date and invoke their legal claim to the money already obtained by the companies. This amendment would protect the limited number of custodial mothers who are owed child support but who are not in the Federal child support program and whose children's father was involved in a bankruptcy.”