I would add, as you know, that there was no criminal conviction that was too serious.

HHS performed in-home reviews in only about 4 percent of the cases over the last 3 years.

So out of tens of thousands of kids, you have never... terminated an agreement?

And here you are saying that ORR's policy change is not likely to help kids most vulnerable to labor trafficking.

The law already says that, and the Flores Agreement already says that.

I think we need to ensure that we have better management going forward, and I think we need to look carefully at what happened and why.

I thank the Senator from Tennessee. I appreciate his work and help to ensure these kids are not going to be left in the lurch. There are kids in the State of Ohio who are expecting to get their Perkins loans this January as they go into…

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I rise today to talk about a couple of areas where I think we can make progress on legislation before the end of the year. This has been a legislative session in which we passed a number of important bills, and I think there is more we can…

I think this is a time when we should all be doubling down on how to make government work more efficiently.

I want to talk a little about the legislation before us to repeal and replace ObamaCare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act. When I travel around my home State of Ohio, I hear about a couple things a lot. One is the tough job…

I think Senator Casey asked a really good question about jobs and wages, and how do we get past the point in this country where we see not just flat but actually declining wages, higher expenses, the middle-class squeeze.