I have advanced similar legislation solutions for years, and am pleased to see the Administration embrace these changes.

Based on her recommendations and those of other experts, this last week, I introduced legislation to help every State better protect youth in foster care from being victims of sex trafficking.

I was pleased to be joined in introducing that bill by my colleague Lloyd Doggett of Texas.

I expect the House will act on all of those bills, and I am confident we will be able to get our legislation to the President's desk.

We need to do more to protect kids like Wendy Coffield, and that is why we are all here today.

When we get the lead Republican and the lead Democrat on a subcommittee to agree on a bill, that is usually a formula for success.

I think that my State, the State of Illinois, has a shameful record.

I have held the position for quite a while that it could and should be used for medicinal purposes.

It seems to me that talking about reducing hours that people work so that they cannot experience a quality of life that simply becomes desirable to me is not something that we should be encouraging businesses to do in our country.

What the IG community is most concerned about are the FISMA audits and other audits and evaluations and reviews we do of information technology, information security systems of our agencies.

I really think that all of the members of this committee agree that waste in government and unnecessary spending is unacceptable.