Tim Kaine: “I am honored to join my colleagues today to speak about the child tax credit and to do something similar to what they…”

“I am honored to join my colleagues today to speak about the child tax credit and to do something similar to what they have done and just make it personal to families. Tomorrow, on the 15th of December, more than 930,000 Virginia families, who together have 1.6 million kids, will receive a child tax cut payment--$300 for a child under age 6 and $250 for each child between ages 6 and 17. Those are big numbers. Those are big numbers-- 1.6 million children; 930,000 families. And I am here joining my colleagues to ask that this payment to parents--this parents' tax cut--to help their children is not the last, because unless we act, the sixth payment that will go out tomorrow will be the last. Now, the numbers are big, but sometimes the numbers can obscure--data and statistics can obscure--what is really at stake. So just a week ago, I put up on my Senate web page a question: What has this tax cut meant to your family? In 1 week we have received more than 200 responses, and I just want to share a few with you. Heather, from Glenn Allen, is a full-time caretaker of her physically disabled daughter. Her daughter started having trouble with the stairs in her home. So they used the child tax cut payment to help them buy a new stair lift so her daughter is still able to navigate the home. Heather wrote this to me: My family deeply appreciates the child tax credit because we routinely incur additional expenses while caring for a loved one with a disability.…”