Ann Wagner: “I look forward to reforms that perhaps have been decades and decades overdue and bringing this up to date.”

Child Protective Services is a critical tool to shield children from abuse, and they are often the first step in ensuring children are taken out of abusive situations and abusers are put behind bars.

“Every child deserves to have their voice heard, protected, and preserved. We have seen firsthand how unrecorded CPS interviews can keep truth hidden in the darkness even when a child is brave enough to cry out, and how that darkness can…

I rise in respectful opposition to this amendment which would remove an important provision from the INVEST Act. Section 307 is not new or untested policy. This exact language passed the House floor earlier this Congress as H.R. 3357, the…

I thank the chairman for yielding me time. I have an amendment, Madam Chair, in this en bloc. I rise today in support of my amendment which would provide a fully offset and fully paid for 67 percent funding increase for investigations of…