We'll need to see the language in the bills before we can talk specifics, but of course we're glad they are engaged. We look forward to working with the Legislature in a bipartisan way. We hope that we will be able to come to agreement.

I think this demonstrates perfectly the creativity and strength of these young people and their desire to help other people in their same situation. This just shows the power of asking people who are involved what needs to be done. ... They are the ones that know.

Kids are expensive to raise, and certainly this adoption subsidy is helpful. But anyone who has had a family knows the costs go well beyond that. We don't want them to decide not to adopt because they would lose the foster care subsidy that allowed them to become a foster parent.

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

It's also called taiga. We've had people from Sweden here who recognized the plants, and naturalists from Russia ? their language was limited, but they could throw around the Latin names, so we had a common language.

Everything he does he deserves. He went out and got the recognition and he worked to get noticed. I told him to enjoy every second of being recruited, because it will be the only time you get wined and dined.