John Shaw: “I intend to support this bill, but I must express my disappointment as to a provision that was dropped in the conference…”

“I intend to support this bill, but I must express my disappointment as to a provision that was dropped in the conference which I feel is very, very important. As the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Boucher) has just stated, bringing up child support from down at a lower level on priorities right up to the top was a very, very good thing. In order to further implement this, I offered an amendment which was accepted by the House during the passage of this legislation which put a mechanism for enforcement of this very important provision in place. I would hope should this bill come back to the House for any reason whatsoever either because of action of the Senate or action of the President that they will reconsider the Shaw amendment and place it back in the bill as a very reasonable enforcement tool for those millions of American women who are struggling to raise their children and are in desperate need of the funds they receive each month in the form of child support.”