Political Quotes

“the resolution just approved by unanimous consent is a very important resolution that Senator Grassley and I are proud to support, along with Senator Inhofe and others. It is a resolution recognizing that this Saturday is National Adoption Day. I am happy to report that on this Saturday, there will be over 3,500 children who will be adopted into permanent families. This day was started about 10 years ago by some very enterprising organizations, and the Senate and the House of Representatives have been helping to promote the concept of National Adoption Day for many years now, maybe as many as 10. We sure have been working to help highlight this special day. It was started by nonprofit organizations to highlight the fact that we have orphans in the United States. People don't believe this, but there are over 100,000 children in our foster care system between the ages of 0 and 21, who are in our foster care system, whose parents' rights have been terminated for good reason--maybe terrible or gross abuse or neglect. Those parents are unable or unwilling to raise their biological children. These children need a forever family, a relative to step up, a cousin or an aunt or a grandmother to step up, or they need someone in the community to step up and say: You can be a part of our family. People don't stop needing families when they are 21 years old.…”