Roy Cooper: “this was a very important week in the House of Representatives. Hopefully we learned a lesson of bipartisan cooperation…”

“this was a very important week in the House of Representatives. Hopefully we learned a lesson of bipartisan cooperation last night with the historic victory on the drug reimportation bill; and hopefully we also learned the dangers of arrogance, anger, and insensitivity when a House chairman had to apologize to this House. I hope that we apply these lessons to the child care tax credit today. We need to help the 12 million poor children waiting for that assistance. The Senate has voted 94-2 to help these children. The White House is for it. Only a small group in the House Republican leadership is opposing it. People of goodwill on both sides of the aisle want this relief to be granted today. Where is compassionate conservative? As one of the House Republican leaders said, "It ain't going to happen." Mr. Speaker, this House needs to get relief to these 12 million poor children.”