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OCR Page 1 of 8THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 5, 1998
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON CHILD CARE
Earlier this week, I submitted my budget proposal to Congress. I am proud that this
budget -- the first balanced budget in a generation -- includes an ambitious initiative to make
child care better, safer, and more affordable. Yesterday, we moved closer to achieving
meaningful child care legislation because of an important step taken by Senator Chris Dodd and
many of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate. Senator Dodd has introduced a comprehensive
child care package that, like mine, significantly increases child care subsidies for poor children,
provides greater tax relief to help low- and middle-income families pay for child care, creates a
tax credit for businesses that provide child care for their employees, increases after-school
opportunities for children, promotes early learning, and improves child care quality.
In putting forward this proposal, Senator Dodd and his co-sponsors have built on their
longstanding commitment to improving child care for our nation's children. I was also pleased
that, last week, a group of Republicans introduced a promising child care proposal. I look
forward to working with the Congress on a bipartisan basis to enact child care legislation this
year that will help Americans fulfill their responsibilities as workers, and, even more
importantly, as parents.
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