The meeting will come to order. Robert frost once wrote home is the place when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unquote. Unfortunately for far too many children in the foster care system that type of home is not available. Today, the Senate Finance committee will hear testimony annal alternatives that can reduce the reliance ons Foster Care Group homes. I have been pleased to work on this with Ranking Member wyden. I enjoy working with him on everything we work on. Keep it up. This is a bipartisan hearing and i appreciate senator wydens efforts and those of had staff to make it so. The basic premise of this hearing is simple. Whenever possible children should grow up in a home with their family. When problems arise, attempts should be made to keep the child safely at home. If they cannot be safely at home efforts should be placed to put them with relatives. Children and youth should only be in group homes for short periods of time and only when efforts to place them in a
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] things are winding down here at the press club. If you missed any of the discussion of discussion with the chancellor at unc, you can find it online at cspan. Org. The herald newspaper today reporting that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell thinks the senate could pass along stalled Cyber Security bill before leaving for august recess, but that it will take cooperation. Could see a procedural vote to move forward on that measure tomorrow. Party lunchesin right now. You can catch the White House Briefing on cspan2. And of course, the senate with a gavel back in. More live coverage is coming up in about one hour, talking about the future of afghanistan with general John Campbell, the general of Operation Resolute support starting at 3 00 eastern time. Throughout the month we are looking back at the cities we visited this
On behalf of macleans, i want to thank the viewers for tuning in tonight. Be sure to visit the ma macleans website. Stay tuned. I am paul wells. Good night from toronto. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] the potential effect of the middle east. Live at noon, is eastern on cspan. With the senate and its august break, will feature programming on cspan 2. At the end of the summer, look on the special programs saturday, september 5. We will be live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival. On sunday, we have the live indepth program. Tv on cspan 2, television for serious readers. Atcoming up next, a look u. S. China relations. Then, afghanistan Operations Commander about the training of Afghan Forces and other challenges in the region. Later, a discussion on the future of mexico. ur attention to u. S. China relations. We want to welcome robert daly, who served as a Cultural Exchange officer. He now serves as the director of the Kissinger Institute in c