Richard Blumenthal: “So you would agree, I think, that the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, known as CAPTA, really should provide…”

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

Sen. Blackburn and I will fight as long and hard as necessary to pass this bill.

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”