Joe Courtney actually said...

"Again, child abuse is child abuse, whether it happens in a home, whether it happens in a medical setting."

"This really should not be some child protection agency free zone where complaints can't be fielded and investigated."

"I could care less about the media. The real questions is just that the local school budgets, as Mr. O'Connell knows, are stretched thin."

"There is not question, as the witnesses have said, that local and state officials in the area of school closings make the final call, but your direction, I think, is really what they look to."