Dave Reichert

We know from research that foster children are prescribed mind-altering psychotropic drugs at very high rates, far higher than other children.

Our future lies with our nation's children. For kids in foster care, we have an added responsibility to help them succeed, including helping them overcome the trauma they experienced before, and in some cases since, they left their home.

At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Huizenga).

I should have also mentioned that Mrs. Black is a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Now I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam), also a member of the Ways and Means Committee.

I want to thank Mr. Doggett for his support. Just as we were listening to each other and talking to each other regarding the issue that existed prior to bringing this bill to the floor, I am interested in continuing to work with Mr…

There is a lot of misinformation out there about trade and about trade agreements.

I consistently hear from businesses, local chambers of commerce, and farmers in my home state about the need to renew and update TPA.

I received phone calls this past week from sheriffs, from police chiefs from Washington State, very much supportive of fighting crime, and investing in kids.

But the MIECHV program, when it was created in 2010, marked the first time there was dedicated federal funding for this purpose.

At its core, this program is designed to improve outcomes for children and families who face the greatest risk for abuse and neglect and a host of other problems that place too many kids far behind on the road of life.

It's time to review whether it is really making that hoped-for difference.

One of the goals of the new federal home visiting program is to help families and children before problems arise.

We all know it's better to prevent a problem than to try and correct it after things have gone wrong.

I introduced this legislation to help our veterans transition their military skills and expertise into long term civilian jobs.

Do you make a promise to the American people today, another promise, Madam Secretary, that there will be no more delays to the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act?

As many as 5 million Americans have lost their existing healthcare plans.

I think the unemployment rate speaks for itself.

In 2009 the Administration economists predicted that, under the Administration's trillion-dollar stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would never rise above 8 percent, but we all know that is what happened.

Imagine 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 years old and that is your life.

The difficulty we have in trying to convince young people to please leave the streets because of the danger we knew that lurked out there...

I think that is a critical thing for Americans to understand, that it is just not a machine of legislation back in Washington, D.C., with a lot of uncaring, process-oriented people.

I think Rescue and Restore could be a similar effort in really eliminating human trafficking.

I think when you think about 9,000 to 10,000 young people in foster care... we really need to wrap our arms around them.

I saw firsthand in my work, not only in the Green River case, but on patrol when I first started in the early '70s, the tragedy that occurs when young boys and young girls run away from home, leave their dysfunctional homes and end up on…

Today, we are doing what Congress, in my opinion, should do more of, and that is get out of Washington, D.C., and listen to real people who deal with critical issues like we are dealing with today.