Linda Smith: “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.

One size does not fit all, that means that individual providers are going to have different needs.

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?

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.