Sean Patrick Maloney: “I request permission to place in the Record, in response to this statement, statements by Bar Associations across this…”

“I request permission to place in the Record, in response to this statement, statements by Bar Associations across this country, women's organizations, women's legal defense, asserting what I have said that children are put second to credit card companies. The material referred to is as follows: National Women's Law Center, Washington, DC, March 14, 2005. Re: Oppose H.R. 685, The Bankruptcy Act of 2005 Hon. John Conyers, Jr., House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Congressman Conyers: The National Women's Law Center is writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 685, a bankruptcy bill that is harsh on economically vulnerable women and their families, but that fails to address serious abuses of the bankruptcy system by perpetrators of violence against patients and health care professionals at women's health care clinics. This bill would inflict additional hardship on over one million economically vulnerable women and families who are affected by the bankruptcy system each year: those forced into bankruptcy because of job loss, medical emergency, or family breakup--factors which account for nine out of ten filings--and women who are owed child or spousal support by men who file for bankruptcy.…”