Political Quotes

“I think on the floor today when we think about how much time we spend discussing building roads, building schools, building businesses, it is really wonderful to take a day and talk about building families. Families with children are created in two ways. The children come by birth and they come by adoption. In our family, my husband and I have six children. Two of those children, our third child and our fifth child, are hard-to-place children that came to our family years ago. They have brought such wonderful gifts to this family. They have brought such diversity, diversity of talents, diversity of interests, and diversity of race. It is a team of six children that are full of life, full of noise, full of interests. I wish those two children that have brought such a wonderful presence to our home could be with us here today and that I could introduce my colleagues to them. Twenty-one years ago, when my husband and I adopted the first of those two children, we had a lot of love and energy. We had a ready-made family. We had no money. So it was quite a decision, quite a strain, to make the decision that we could, in fact, adopt that child. The bill that is before us today will give to families across this country the opportunity to have the wonderful gifts that adopted children bring to families. In fact, it makes me very emotional to think of the special blessings that will come to so many families because of this bill.”