Let me just say that Senator Landrieu is absolutely right. There is a lot that we have to do.

Okay. Another hearing, capital.

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

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

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

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.

46 percent of foster children have current case plans. Could that be right?

How about if the child had more--how about more basic things? How about more significant--not procedural things, but how about basic facts about the child?

What I am hearing you tell me is, we have a new system. It is a Cadillac system.

I draw the line when the system came into effect.

I am going to continue to have hearings. And we are going to keep digging for facts and findings.

I am not satisfied with the answer.

Let me ask what your plans are to ensure these children can be offered up for adoption in a timely manner.

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

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

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

And let me just say, as a former prosecutor and also someone who, as lieutenant governor of the State of Ohio, one of my responsibilities was to oversee our prison system, that the special population worries me more than the other…

Why did you not file it?