Bill Cassidy

I keep asking questions I don't know the answer to, but hearing you speak today, it suddenly occurred to me that the people that decided to lock down our economy... did they actually have children, psychiatrists, psychologists involved in…

What does your research say about the role of parents when students are going through traumatic experiences?

I think anyone that as a child stands up that can't read in front of a class and is ridiculed because she can't read understands that pain.

In the bipartisan Safer Communities Act passing because of Republican support, there was $1 billion for funding physical safety of schools.

We know the important role that parents play for children, to be there, for them to listen, to advise them.

We have been pleased to support his efforts to increase mental health support in schools and communities.

Lamar went on to say it was the most profound--the most profound reform of mental health law in the previous 30 years.

Everybody here knows a fellow American struggling with mental health issues.

If the veteran has dementia, though, which many of these would, that would not be of help.

That seems actually unlikely to occur to many people.

How would the family member know that I can speak to the social worker of my loved one to make a complaint about--do you see what I am saying?

I will just finish by saying that should be the challenge of this Committee, to come up with that regulatory reform bill on a bipartisan basis.

I will just finish by saying that should be the challenge of this Committee, to come up with that regulatory reform bill on a bipartisan basis.

I will note, in New York State, I am told that there are 30,000 unfilled childcare slots.

I think that is important to recognize that this was a short-term thing.

You do recommend that the parents are informed that their child will be discussing transgenderism in their...

The reason I raised that is that we start off--he who pays the piper, picks the tune...

Now, he brought up something in which--very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable about how children were being judged by the color of their skin, at least implicitly, and not by the content of their character.

You want more people to come into the workforce, you are going to have to have childcare.

I think he and I have been the loudest Senators on reforming health care.

Childcare obviously is too expensive for those who need it, but I think it is important to note that it has become more expensive as we have pumped more Federal dollars into it--it is kind of odd.

What Republicans will disagree with, at least this Republican, is that more Government and more of the kind of spending that Congressional Democrats are promoting is the solution.

The plan comes in response to a crisis of its own making as Democrats flooded the childcare industry with $39 billion in what was supposed to be short term COVID-19 spending.

A one size fits all model of institutional childcare with massive Federal spending doesn't seem to match what parents want or what working families need.

I think that is important to recognize that this was a short-term thing.