House Proceeding 04-29-09 on Apr 29th, 2009 :: 0:06:00 to 0:09:50
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John Linder: re-authorized and adopted by the congress. i reserve the balance of my time the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from georgia. mr. linder: thank you, mr. speaker and i thank the gentleman from washington for bringing this bill to the floor. mr. speaker, i rise in support

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Speech By: John Linder

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John Linder: of h.r. 627. this makes an important technical fix to make sure congress' intent and states improve financial incentives to help more children in foster care find permanent and loving homes. this continues a long tra biggs of bipartisan activity by the ways and means committee

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John Linder: designed to promote the adoption of children from foster care. in crafting the landmark adoption and safe families act. and last fall, the foster in connections to success and increasing adoptions act of

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John Linder: 2008. they encourage more effortto quickly move children from foster care into permanent and loving homes and helped to achieve dramatic increases in the number of children adopted from foster care in the past decade. in each case, the legislation was designed to benefit children who faced some of the most

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John Linder: our country, those who have spent years, sometimes practically all of their lives in the foste the legislation before us today would ensure the goals of last year's bipartisan foster in connections law are realized. that legislation encouraged increased adoptions from foster care by revising the adoption incentives program and e

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John Linder: its authori year 2013. among other improvements, the foster in connection law gave more funds if they helped mor families adopt children in foster care, especially older and disabled children. unfortunately, the fiscal year 2009 omnibus appropriations

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John Linder: bill, which passed through the house with limited consideration, included an error that overrides some of the improvements in last year foster in connections law. in short, the omnibus bill incorrectly stipulated that adoption incentive funds should be provided under the old, less

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John Linder: generous rules congress wanted to replace instead of the more generous rules included in the foster in connections law. this legislation makes a simple repair of ensuring that congressional intent is followed so states have the incentive to promote the adoption of older and disabled children in foster care.

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John Linder: according to the congressional budget office, this technical fix has no costs. i would like to thank my colleagues, representative camp and rangel and ranking member and chairman respectively for introducing legislation to crenth correct this error in the house. their bill is identical to the

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John Linder: legislation before us, s. 735. i request unanimous consent to insert in the record at this point two letters of endorsement for this legislation. i encourage all members to support this important legislation so it can be signed into law as quickly as possible. i rerve. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcdermott: i have no further

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John Linder: speakers. mr. linder: i yield back the balance of my time. mr. mcdermott: i yield back the balance of my time the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass