Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4864) to develop and implement policies to advance early childhood development, to provide assistance for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 4864 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Global Child Thrive Act of 2020''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) According to a 2019 report from the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation entitled ``Levels & Trends in Child Mortality'', the annual number of deaths among children younger than 15 years of age dropped by 56 percent between 1990 and 2018, from approximately 14,200,000 to approximately 6,200,000. (2) According to a 2016 article published in The Lancet entitled ``Early childhood development: the foundation of sustainable development''-- (A) an estimated 250,000,000 children in low-income and middle-income countries suffer suboptimal development due to poverty and stunting alone; and (B) children who do not meet developmental milestones are expected to lose about 25 percent of their average yearly income once they become adults.…”