George Miller: “And that is minimal at this stage; 10 or 15 years ago it was a major problem, but because of the changes that have been…”

“And that is minimal at this stage; 10 or 15 years ago it was a major problem, but because of the changes that have been made historically on a bipartisan basis with Senator Dole and Congressman Goodling leading the Republican efforts, this bipartisan effort on agriculture and on the education committees had worked out so that we have a program now which is the model throughout the world. The WIC Program is the model throughout the world on how to deal with high-risk pregnancies and all of the tragedies that can come from that. And going up front and providing a very strong prevention mode that has worked beyond people's wildest expectations. You point out that we saved $3 for every dollar that we expend in WIC and $10 for every dollar that we spend immunizing a young child. That is just the immediate medical cost. That does not go to what you save in special education and remedial education and all of these other problems that, unfortunately, these children manifest many years later that have been separated from the time of birth when people are no longer concentrating on what happened, so that now Sally or Johnny has a problem in class or with attention span or all of these other problems that occur today.”