Rudy Yakym: “I am grateful for this opportunity to chair the Task Force and for your leadership on this Committee.”

Either the fiscal commission is going to be successful or our country's doomed.

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Supporting America's Children and Families Act, which updates key child welfare programs for the first time since 2008. That includes reducing the paperwork…

The system that’s supposed to protect kids didn’t have a box to put her in. That cost her life.

Her family knew she was in danger. Her community knew she was in danger. But because there was no confirmed abduction, no AMBER Alert went out — and because she didn’t have a qualifying disability, a Silver Alert didn’t apply.