Political Quotes

“My thanks to Chairman Camp and Chairman Paulsen, whose leadership has facilitated our consideration of this bill today and the crafting of it into the piece of legislation that it is. I rise in support of the Protect Our Kids Act, which represents an improved version over legislation that I introduced about a year ago. We are reminded, as Chairman Camp indicated, by the tragedy in Connecticut, each family touched by the damage, the deaths of these youngest Americans. In contrast, as with so many families, in our family we share the joy of three little girls. As difficult as it is to conceive of the wrong, the evil that occurred in Connecticut so recently, it is similarly difficult to conceive of how many of our youngest Americans are the subject of abuse and even death. We, through the Protect Our Kids Act, are seeking to have thoughtful consideration of what steps we can take to protect these most vulnerable children. We're not interested in another commission that just prepares another report that gets filed somewhere; we're interested in action coming from this commission. The original legislation, which was filed in a way that provided for its consideration in a number of committees, has been, in terms of jurisdiction, narrowed somewhat, but the objectives of the legislation remain as broad as they ever were--to explore every aspect of child abuse leading to child fatalities and to find more bipartisan solutions to addressing that serious matter.…”