Thank you to each of you. Some of you I know but haven't seen in a while, and some of you I'm just meeting for the first time. In all cases, I know it's not easy to share your personal experiences like this. I want to thank you all for your courage in doing that and the extra purpose you give to the lives of your children by helping them, through your voices, to make a difference in the way that we're making this difference with this bill and the other work that's been done. You all spoke so well about the impacts the current policies have, whether it be the leave or whether it be the heartless bureaucracies you deal with.
Rob and Rachel, you in particular laid out a number of different things you had to deal with. I think anyone in the room who's a parent and who sits here and imagines being in that circumstance.... There aren't words for it. There just aren't words for it. Thank you for sharing that because I think it makes a difference in terms of knowing what we have to do, going forward.
I want to give each of you the chance to add to what you've already spoken about. In every case, you've all done work to try to help others who've been through the same things you've been through. You can speak from your own experience, but you can also speak from the experiences of others you've encountered and worked with and supported. What kind of difference will this change make for people who are experiencing this grief? What difference will having a little extra time to grieve, and having some of these heartless processes fixed, make for someone going through what you've been through?
Maybe we can go in the same order as your opening statements, to make it easy, and give each of you a chance to answer that question.