Bill Cassidy

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

So you agree with his testimony in the main?

I don't think it is too much to ask that in the richest country in the history of the world, all of our children, no matter where they live, no matter what their background is, get the quality childcare, early childhood education they need…

I am doing this as a problem solver, not really doing it in a political way.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We are paying them starvation wages.

I think it is time we got our priorities right. And if we get our priorities right, we put children at the top of the list.

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

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.