Rae Oliver Davis: “I am grateful to my friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), for working with me to bring this measure to the…”

“I am grateful to my friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), for working with me to bring this measure to the floor today and thank him and thank both the majority and minority staffs for their hard work on this effort. H.R. 2883 is a bipartisan, bicameral, no-cost effort to extend and make modest adjustments to programs designed to help ensure the safety and well- being of children at risk of abuse and neglect. We need to do all we can to ensure more children remain safely in their homes, and this bill will help to do so. National Conference of State Legislatures, September 13, 2011. Hon. Dave Camp, Chairman, House Ways & Means, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC. Hon. Sandy Levin, Ranking Member, House Ways & Means, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Camp and Representative Levin: On behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), we urge you to support H.R. 2883, a bill to renew the authority of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in state child welfare programs and reauthorizing the Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) program. Congressmen Geoff Davis and Lloyd Doggett have fashioned bipartisan legislation that helps create opportunities to enhance the state-federal partnership to assist our nation's most vulnerable children.…”