The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 234. The nays are 193. The previous question is ordered. The question is on adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The gentleman from florida. Mr. Hastings mr. Speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore the ayes have it. A recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The Unfinished Business is the ote on the motion of the georgia, mr. H
Welcome to brookings. Richard reeves, the gentlemen to my right not politically, but to my right. And i codirect a center here called the center on children and families which we are extremely pleased to do. Were pleased to be holding this event, as well, about an old policy idea, which is often called the childrens allowance, a species of guaranteed annual income with some new twists. Why would we be concerned about a childrens allowance, the idea of giving a guaranteed cash benefit to families. I think there are a lot of reasons but i think two are predominant. One has always been a good reason to do it and that is it costs a lot of money to raise a child. At least a quarter of a million dollars, estimates vary greatly. Wealthy families spend more and so forth. But it is a lot of money to raise children. And they are the future of society so it makes sense that we would subsidize families to try to compensate them for the money that they have to spend for children, because would the
I will tell you i voted against the welfare bill, one of the proudest votes i have cast in the 26 years i served in the house of representatives. I need to set that record out there. Jared bernstein, i thank you for moderating this discussion and for the great work you do. One of the foremost leaders of economic policy. They do improve the lives of working americans. I want to recognize ron haskins and jane for the groundbreaking work on this topic then paves the way to so many conversations that were helped today. The Solutions Discussed today provide a constructive framefor members of congress. To approach the universal child allowance, the expansion of Child Tax Credits. It has been a productive and thoughtprovoking day. An opportunity to speak to you. It is a sitting book end to a Conference Held 50 years ago. And the school of social work, hold children allowance conference, expert in social welfare and economics with policies about makers to assure the issue of child allowance wa
Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep