Chris Dodd: “I have been deeply interested in afterschool programs. Going back, in fact, I offered some of the earliest amendments to…”

“I have been deeply interested in afterschool programs. Going back, in fact, I offered some of the earliest amendments to support afterschool programs as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, and then as the ranking member, working very closely with my good friend and colleague from Vermont, Senator Jeffords, and Senator Barbara Boxer from California has been very interested in afterschool programs. Most Senators have been interested in afterschool programs. Afterschool programs--in a sense, I am preaching to the choir addressing the Presiding Officer as a former Governor of the State of Delaware. He understands the tremendous value of having good, strong afterschool programs and how important they are.”