Roy Blunt: “it is good for both of us and our colleagues to be thinking this month about National Adoption Month, to recognize the…”

“it is good for both of us and our colleagues to be thinking this month about National Adoption Month, to recognize the celebration of National Adoption Day, which will occur this Saturday. I have had the great privilege of serving as cochair of the Coalition on Adoption with Senator Klobuchar from Minnesota. It is an opportunity not only for us to work together in a bipartisan way, but at an event we attended just the other day, I was told the adoption caucus in the House and Senate is the biggest caucus of either body and the biggest caucus of the Congress. Of course, it should be. It is built on the idea that kids have the need of a family and that there are families out there who want to adopt kids. Whether that is nationally, domestically, or internationally, we really work hard to try to make that more possible. Our House cochairs have been great to work with. Senator Klobuchar and I are working on several pieces of legislation right now to make it easier for families to adopt and to make sure adopted families have the support they need to stay strong. One piece of legislation we are working on is the Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act.…”