Senator Clinton and Senator Corzine, you are great friends of America's kids, and today's Senate hearing is an example of that.

We need more flexible funding for evaluation and treatment and for systematic studies to evaluate the best treatments for these children.

If we do not have good work like this on which to base the decisions we make, then we are once again acting on the basis of what we believe or feel or think rather than the evidence.

Their world has changed and therefore the strategy for dealing with these real psychiatric problems has to change as well.

Washington is an evidence-free zone, and the more we can try to fill that evidence-free zone with some real evidence like you have presented us today, the better off we will be.

The greatness of America is measured not just by the might of the military, but also by the strengths of her communities and the health of her children.

These are warning signs that our nation cannot ignore.

The child mental health system was overburdened on September 10th.

I have introduced a Homeland Security Block Grant last November or so because what I started hearing were the concerns that this initiative attempts to address.

I think that that is a matter of great importance to this committee, because the first line of our homeland defense are those local responders, so we have to figure out how we are going to help local communities be able to confront that.

What we hear, what Senator Voinovich hears from his first responders in Ohio, we have not completed a medical screening of our firefighters--25 percent have some kind of respiratory, bronchitis, asthmatic reaction.

One thing that I believe we should try to do across the board, and I appreciated what you said to Senator Voinovich, was to pick up some of the costs for those medical exams, because the Federal Government needs to know what we are…

How do we take care of these overtime expenses, for example?

I have introduced a Homeland Security Block Grant last November or so because what I started hearing were the concerns that this initiative attempts to address.

What we hear, what Senator Voinovich hears from his first responders in Ohio, we have not completed a medical screening of our firefighters--25 percent have some kind of respiratory, bronchitis, asthmatic reaction.

I cannot express eloquently enough, I am afraid, my personal gratitude and the gratitude of New Yorkers for the extraordinary job that he and his team have done.

How do we take care of these overtime expenses, for example?

I think that that is a matter of great importance to this committee, because the first line of our homeland defense are those local responders, so we have to figure out how we are going to help local communities be able to confront that.