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Senate resolution · 112th Congress · Latest step: Passed Senate

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that children should have a safe, loving, nurturing, and permanent family and that it is the policy of the United States that family reunification, kinship care, or domestic and intercountry adoption promotes permanency and stability to a greater degree than long-term institutionalization and long-term, continually disrupted foster care.

S.Res. 378Introduced Feb 15, 2012Policy area: Families
Sponsor: Sen. Mary Landrieu D-LA
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Where it went

Latest action: Feb 15, 2012 — Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S803; text as passed Senate: CR S803; text of measure as introduced: CR S704)

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

10 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 5 Democrats

5 of 10 cosponsors (50%) are from the other party.

Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), John Boozman (R-AR), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Kay Hutchison (R-TX), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Carl Levin (D-MI), Richard Lugar (R-IN), E. Nelson (D-NE).

More from the sponsor

Other 112th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Mary Landrieu.

Sponsor’s state and district

Louisiana in Congress

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Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.