Barbara Mikulski: “I believe this will cost $920 million over a 7-year period. We hope that part of the money will come from, first of all…”

“I believe this will cost $920 million over a 7-year period. We hope that part of the money will come from, first of all, child support itself. No. 2, by bringing men back into the family, which will decrease the need for public assistance. I am looking at the memo here on exactly where that comes from. I do not have an offset for this. I believe we were going to accept an adoption amendment which will cost $3 billion--and, by the way, I was a foster care worker and also involved in adoption work many years ago. So I support that amendment. But, there is not a cost that you can put on bringing a dad back into the home. If it is going to cost us a couple of bucks to do that, I think the long-term savings--you might think it is amusing, but I do not think it is.”