07/28/2014
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"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your thoughtful opening statement on this subject..."
"Well, we are going to work harder to fix this because there are thousands of children, maybe not as articulate and as smart as you, but there are thousands of children that are in this same situation."
"In the law--and this is mentioned in the testimony--if a child is 14 or older, they have to give their consent for adoption."
"We are not anywhere where we need to be, but there are new Federal laws that are incentivizing that kind of mentorship."