Bill Clinton: “I'd like to ask one question. First of all, I can't help saying this--when I heard you say that warm and responsive…”

“I'd like to ask one question. First of all, I can't help saying this--when I heard you say that warm and responsive child care actually triggered a biochemical reaction that reduced stress--I wish we could have a center like that for the White House staff and the Congress staff. [Laughter] We may actually come up with a revolutionary new proposal here today. [Laughter] Let me ask you a serious question. One of the things that I constantly try to deal with here, that I'm supersensitive to because I was a Governor for 12 years before I came here, is trying to determine who should do what--what we can do and make a difference, what we have to basically either exhort or incentivize or require some other people to do. I was quite taken by the comment you made that only 36 hours of training of a child care worker can make a huge difference. I can't help thinking there probably are a lot of young, often single parents that might benefit from the same 36 hours of training. And I'm wondering how you think that issue ought to be dealt with. Should States basically upgrade their training standards and put funds into it? Should there be training centers established, more than are there now--even if everybody were required to do it, are there enough places that do the training in all States? Talk a little bit about how we might set up an infrastructure and pattern of training to give--let's suppose we said within 2 years we wanted every child care provider, even people who do it out of their homes, wherever, to get the 36 hours of training, and we'd like it to be open, let's say, to low-income parents who are having their first child--how would we do such a thing? [Ms. Galinsky discussed available resources and the level of interest in training.]”