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Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is one of the chief architects of the child care tax credit approved by Congress last year. A Columbia University study says the measure pulled more than 3 million children out of poverty, but the credit stopped when the Build Back Better bill failed. Bennet is pushing to have it restored.