Political Quotes

“I thank our colleague. I asked the question so as to make it a part of the record of the proceedings today. So often when Congress acts on an amendment such as this, which is so important to so many families, they suddenly hear from Washington, ``You got childcare.'' But I think we better put in a caution: Yes, childcare hopefully will be made available, but there has to be some showing of a requirement. Because it is my understanding the Department of Defense now has a number of childcare centers here in the Greater Washington area. Frankly, the adequacy is questionable. Some families do not have access to them. But those families, I point out, might not be able to meet the criteria in the opening section 1: In any case where the children of a covered member of the Armed Forces are geographically dispersed. . . . Those families theoretically are not geographically dispersed, but they are caught in between the class that you are establishing and those who are near a major military installation here in Washington, yet there are inadequate childcare facilities. Those are the types of things that are going to have to be worked out should this become law.”