Darlene Hooley: “I support the Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act. Online gambling has a huge impact on individuals and…”

“I support the Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act. Online gambling has a huge impact on individuals and families. But I am not supporting the rule because we have not been able to bring up the child tax credit. I went to the Rose Garden today for the celebration of Leave No Child Behind. And they were celebrating all of the States having plans and about what they were going to do about education and how they were going to move forward. And I supported that plan. But today we are leaving children behind, 12 million children. These are children whose parents earn $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12 an hour. These are people that get up every morning, every noon, every afternoon, whatever their shift is. They go out and work hard, and yet they were denied the child tax credit. It is time that we change that. The time is now. When I saw the quote from the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) that said there are a lot of other things that are more important than that, referring to the child tax credit, I wanted to say to the gentleman, say it isn't so, say it isn't so. We need to pass this and get on with our business.”