we've got to figure out some solutions, and I think you've presented some.

I certainly think that the Trump administration should not get away with blaming the Congress entirely on--blaming the problem entirely on Congress.

We are spending a minimum of $300 a day on these children.

I want to look at the administration's zero tolerance policy that forced the separation of 2,800 children.

I welcome anybody who has gone down there and seen whatever you may have seen so that the Congress, I think, can be sensitive to what's going on.

These documents set forth recommendations to stop separating the children from their families and unnecessary detentions and ensure we provide humane treatment to everyone in government custody.

I can't sit here as a Member of Congress and hear about somebody possibly dying and not do what I can to save them, and I think we all feel the same way, on both sides of the aisle.

And so help me God, I'm going to do everything in our power and work with our entire committee to try to resolve these issues as fast as we possibly can.

All they want is one more chance to make their way to protect their families to live, and I do not know what is more American than that.

With Democrats in charge of this House, had we allowed this session to go--had we gone on recess with no more money on the border, then the blame would have been more than it already is.

These women are not voiceless, Mr. Chairman, but they are cruelly and criminally unheard.

Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see.

These reports were shocking to the conscience.

Families belong together, children belong free, and with their loved ones.

And so you got almost the blind leading the blind. They are not only leading them, they are leading them in the wrong direction.

Pain, passion, purpose.

This has been some of the most chilling testimony that I have heard in my 23 years in Congress.

When bad things happen to us, we should not ask the question why did it happen to us but we should ask the question why did it happen for us.

Thank you to the Honorable Congressman Elijah Cummings and to the honorable congressional colleagues and staff of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Childhood trauma is a pervasive public health issue with long-term negative health effects that costs the United States billions of dollars.

I would be dead without Medicaid.

I want to thank you for your comments, Mr. Jordan.

My mother used to say--my mother used to say there is nothing like a person who don't know what they don't know.

CDC is committed to working with Congress, other Federal, state, and local agencies and partners to address these complex issues and, ultimately, to save lives.

It is not the deed that we do to the children; it is the memory.