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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

How many more months and years can we ask these children and teens to wait until they have a safe and loving home?

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

If the Administration does not come forward next year with this in their budget, it will not happen.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

I think it should be as warm and as inviting and as unintimidating and as empowering to the families that enter it as possible.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

Maybe I wasn't clear. Could you spread that money out over time, is my question.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

We have kids to worry about, we have projects to deal with, it has to get done, but you have to go sell them.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

But why was it laid out that way, is my question. Whose preference is it?

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

But for you to come in front of this committee, or it is not just this committee, but in front of the public, in a public meeting or anyplace, and not be able to answer that basic question is a real problem.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Mar 12, 2003

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.

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