Mitch Landrieu: “I am hoping the language will be included in the final negotiations and that has to do with the tax credit for adoption.…”

“I am hoping the language will be included in the final negotiations and that has to do with the tax credit for adoption. It is a tax credit that is really one of the smallest calls on the tax cut, on the budget in terms of the dollar amount. It is small, but it goes a long way because it helps families who are trying to open up their homes, and have opened up their hearts, to adopt a child--either an infant or a toddler or an older child; either a child through a traditional adoption through an agency in the United States or the adoption of a child from another country--and we have seen that number increase substantially, which is really wonderful--or it helps us find homes for the more than 100,000 children in foster care who deserve so much to have a home and a family to call their own.”