OMB's rule. So that's what we're dealing with?

The only reason you go to a system like this and put the money into it is so that your caseworkers have more time to be caseworkers.

It is imperative that CFSA address these problems and protect the lives of this city's children.

All right. So we are missing a thousand. Do you agree with that?

Well, you know, if there is a target population that is likely to re-offend, it is your target population.

These kinds of reports make us all sick. And the CFSA needs to understand we are not going anywhere, none of us are going anywhere.

We have made the welfare and safety of these children our top priority.

It is also, of course, about accountability. And ultimately, and most importantly, it is about putting the safety and the health and well-being of thousands of children first, above all else.

Well, that is not--I am sorry. That is not what Ms. Ashby just told me.

I would want to know the range.

But, I mean, I really would want to know how long these kids were in care before they got a permanency plan.

It needs to come up here with the Administration strongly behind it for it to have any chance of being done.

$118 million would be one-fourth of the entire District of Columbia Subcommittee, our subcommittee's allocation.

I'm not happy to tell you that.

Does the agency agree with that?

The General Accounting Office has determined that CFSA is not meeting the official requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.

I had to attend another hearing actually, we call it a Senate markup, we were moving a poison control bill that we passed out of committee just a few minutes ago.

But if I have a 5,000 figure, and what's the figure, 5,000 what?