Susan Collins actually said...

"what we heard is it was really hard for them to learn to navigate the school system all over again"

"the bill would create a task force to help develop and distribute information designed to help kinship parents"

"I just want to tell you that I am just overwhelmed by your ability to take such a tragedy and turn it into something that is going to help other families avoid what you went through."

"I hope we can do this in a bipartisan basis as kind of the first step toward a much broader issue here."