Senator Dodd's vision of a national body on children is a far-reaching, life saving initiative.
I commend and thank Senator Christopher Dodd for his untiring and successful efforts on behalf of America's children.
One of the things we did in the healthcare bill is just expand tremendously the number of resources to expand community health services.
But so much of the most vulnerable kids and families just don't even know how to navigate this at all.
I am always struck with the fact--and again, on the Lighthouse Program, which we have worked very closely with over the years, and I am a gr...
I cannot convey my depth of gratitude to Senator Dodd for his decades of enlightened leadership on behalf of children.
How you take that program nationally could be very important.
Connecticut is one of only two States in the country that spends more on corrections than on higher education.
It is labor-intensive.
So, again, it takes someone to step up and to seek to be enrolled.
I can see that already having a positive impact on the children in that classroom and the parents.
And that is great, so there is that sense of having that same person.
I can see the trouble you would be in on that one. A Federal program here. I can see the tea party now talking about that.
But with Head Start, the requirement from the earliest days, when you go back to 1965, that your Head Start program insisted upon parental i...
What tremendous stories here that are going on in our own State.
I am just alarmed. I went the other night to--Nancy Pelosi's, Speaker Pelosi's daughter Alexandra made a movie which HBO supported.
I can't tell you how proud I am of what goes on in my own State, to hear these terrific things that are being done by people here.
We were successful, thanks to Senator Specter.
