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

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.

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?

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

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