representative karen bass, representative tom moreno, representative michelle bachman and representative jim mcdermott that work very closely with senator grassley and myself. and as you can see, this is a cross party lines, across geographic lines, and across different political philosophies we want to say one thing very loud and clear to the country, that foster children are not criminals, they're not delinquents. they are children that are in desperate need of love and care and support. our foster care system in many ways works beautifully and in some ways needs, of course, to be fixed and repaired and strengthened. but overall, the foster caper system -- foster care system should at all times be temporary. it's a temporary place for children to go to be protected and healed and nurtured until they can be returned to their birth family or to their extended family, with sibling groups intact, or until they can be processed to a kinship adoption, which senator grassley has been a tremendous advocate for, or to a domestic adoption. i can't really add anything to the very excellent and comprehensive st