Jennifer Dunn: “this is a good bill. I am very pleased that the President has announced that he is going to sign this bill. I want to…”

“this is a good bill. I am very pleased that the President has announced that he is going to sign this bill. I want to commend Members on both sides of the aisle for their hard work. We have worked for a long time to put a good bill together. To those who are concerned with protecting the children, so were we. We spent a lot of time, a lot of thought, a lot of effort on protecting the children. We have come up with a bill that in the child care portion of the bill provides over $4 billion more to help those mothers who are trying to get off welfare into the workplace, with the peace of mind to know their children will be taken care of, $4 billion more than in the current welfare system. On the child support portion of the legislation, where we all know that in this Nation today $34 billion are owed, ordered by the court to be paid to custodial parents, we have tightened up this system. Those children are often the children that go on welfare--30 percent of their parents leave the State to avoid paying money to support their own flesh-and-blood children. We have solved this problem. So it is my great joy to say support this bill, and thanks for all the help.”