 Foster parents need more support, particularly when caring for the special needs of children, and we must strengthen our caseworker workforce to increase the visits and the counseling. Ultimately, robust investments were never approved in the committee, following a long Republican tradition on the committee to insist that any improvements in the investments in the foster care system must be at the expense of other children under the jurisdiction of what was then the Human Resources Subcommittee. Even a proposal that I advanced