No. The answer is no. We worked on it, but we don't have the answers.

I think one of the things that we have established is that the administration's policies, in fact, have traumatized thousands of children.

First and foremost, children should not be detained.

I do want us to get to a point where there is the recognition of the amount of taxpayer dollar research is being done that then is picked up by the pharmaceutical industry.

For decades the tobacco industry has lied to us.

They are all potentially dangerous, but the non-tobacco flavors are particularly attractive to young people.

I just might add that the bulk of the money in the supplemental is for permanent licensed beds, understanding your need.

We can come together to do this, but it starts with a vision.

Do you want to wait another 50 years to combat the vaping epidemic? We need to act now.

We have left a gaping loophole, which says that it is the--we can use antibiotics for prevention, and that has opened up unbelievable because of the way we are dealing today with a herd of 5,000 swine.

As I have said in the past, HHS needs to terminate the MOA.

Children belong with their parents.

there is a serious, serious backlog, and that there are children on this wait list, thousands of kids flagged to receive services waiting weeks or months before they receive the kinds of services.

This administration inherited the humanitarian crisis on the Southern border, one that has only worsened in recent years.

this is just government child abuse. It is child abuse.

We wouldn't need the beds if we are--and, you know, we had a case management system, Tom.

This is a stark violation of those children's best interests.

I saw it. Saw it. Saw it used with a patient--

Thank you both very much for very powerful testimony and thank you for your dedication, your commitment, and compassion in dealing with this very serious issue.

I just feel very, very strongly that children belong with their parents.

I am going to do everything I can, sir, to put you out of business.

Homestead is not a home. It's an industrial line for the processing of mass numbers of children.

That has been one of the most serious and onerous policies emanating from that MOA that has brought us to the brink of something that has been, yes, a crisis, a humanitarian crisis.

However, that is not the law of the United States, and that is not within the purview of HHS to change.

I have no problem calling into question policies of the prior administration and that's why in this case, we are looking at some more restrictions around the process that has created a situation where we were trying to deal with increased…