Linda Smith

Not by saying you must have a childcare system that is exactly this way, but by actually putting power in the hands of parents.

There is the supply and the demand, how much it costs and how much people are able to pay, is completely mismatched.

I think it is amazing that it happens to be on early childhood education, where we know it all begins.

We have a moral responsibility to fix these issues and to provide poor working parents with basic assurances that their children are not being cared for by convicted felons.

We can make basic low- and no-cost changes to this program that will go a long way toward ensuring the health, safety, and quality in the setting parents leave their children.

If I had my way--and I know the chair would agree--this legislation would be law today.

He saw the e-mail and he pardoned this man anyway. Did he not commit a crime himself? Is that not a crime? I would ask him if that would have been his daughter that this man had hit, would he still have pardoned him?

He saw the e-mail. And he pardoned this man anyway. Did he not commit a crime himself? Is that not a crime? I would ask him if that would have been his daughter that this man had hit, would he still have pardoned him?

Them knowing what they did and still pardon him, I don't see how they can do that. I don't see how that pardon could stand up.

When Haley Barbour said everybody deserves a second chance, my baby didn't get no second chance. Now she's not here.

Why would they do it if they knew about her? She is a person. She wasn't just some name on a piece of paper.