Everyone knows the saying about talk being cheap but action, real action, is when you put your money where your mouth is.

The United States Congress, presented this week with an extraordinary opportunity to take meaningful action amid the Larry Nassar crisis enveloping USA Gymnastics and Michigan State, made it seem like it did, indeed, take that action

Indeed, after passage of a measure Tuesday, lawmakers and advocates said Congress had done exactly that. 

Is that so? Really?

Or can — indeed, should — the painful argument be made that, yet once more, the grown-ups, given the duty of looking after the children and young adults in their care, failed?