All of us have a responsibility for foster children, and we need to squarely meet that obligation.

CWLA thanks you for your leadership last year and for your continuing interest and dedication to addressing the needs of abused and neglected children.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Help us pass health care.

Our action last fall to improve the child welfare system represented a bipartisan, bicameral commitment to work together to significantly improve the lives of our most vulnerable children. But our work is not done.

Thank you for that question.

Those would be good topics for future hearings, too.

I would hope that Mr. McDermott would afford us parents the opportunity to defend ourselves and our children against the abuses...

Children in foster care cannot wait for a time when reform is convenient.

represents the best of Congress. It shows what can be achieved when both sides come together to work in good faith to address a problem.

We will be back on this issue. There are still some issues that are not resolved.