David Cicilline: “But Mr. Bitkower, I think it is very clear that most of us on the Committee recognize that there is an important role…”

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

We have to recognize that would include occupying part of Russia, toppling their government, and replacing them with a different government.