Louise Slaughter: “We are talking about billions of dollars that we could save in our health care system.”

We cannot allow this to continue. We owe it to these children to ensure our Nation's foster care system does all it can to protect them.

Yes, so I think for a long time there has been a general sense in the antitrust world that vertical mergers are rarely bad, and in fact, may be mostly good.

We will do incalculable harm if we did not keep that going, and we are better people than that.

We have all said so many times and we believe with all our hearts that the children in this country are our most important resource.