Stephanie Herseth Sandlin: “If we want to stand for our military, if we want to stand for our working families, if in this House we want to stand up…”

“If we want to stand for our military, if we want to stand for our working families, if in this House we want to stand up for the children of America, if that is our priority, then we need to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Becerra) for advancing this motion, and we need to support and vote for the Becerra motion to instruct. Let us accept the bipartisan, the bipartisan Senate-passed child tax credit bill, and let us just get this bill done once and for all. Let us tell America what is important to the U.S. House of Representatives and that is our working families and that is the children of those working families. As Members know, Mr. Speaker, right now American working families are facing many challenges. We have record job losses in the country, and the current administration will be only the second administration in the history of this country to show a net loss of jobs during the administration. The other administration being the Herbert Hoover administration, which certainly is not very comfortable company.”