Rob Portman

To me, it is not just a matter, as important as it is, of personal data being taken by probably, as we understand it, Chinese hackers, but it is a national security issue.

I agree with what Senator Tester said about the need for us to do more to protect that border.

If we cannot follow the money, as the Chairman has pointed out, we are not going to be able to do our job in terms of oversight.

We have got to--our job is to make sure that we resolve those entities.

Rob Portman and I and Darrell Issa put the DATA Act in place to try to start consolidating so we can have that kind of clarity around financial information.

Our national debt, which is approaching $19 trillion.

Are these fusion centers working as a two-way communication?

Four percent home visits. It is no wonder you have these kinds of problems.

I mean, this is, I think, an extraordinary failure.

Even if they are doing fingerprinting on some of these sponsors and asking about criminal records...

Even if they did the background check and found out that someone was a habitual sex offender, HHS policy was there was no----

I would encourage you to read it. HHS has had quite a long time to think about it.

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

We have no idea. We do not keep track of that.

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

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

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

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

Congress enacted a specific law to avoid these kind of cases.

One thing we have found in our study is the investigation revealed that HHS does not know.

That is very disturbing, and in our report we talk some about this issue...

Shouldn't we be performing home studies on all non-relatives?

Do you think it would just go too far to extend to all children going to non-relatives?

You do not think that there could have been a better outcome with alternative practices?

As Senator Portman mentioned, and failed to employ home studies and post-release services to detect red flags for abuse and trafficking.