Chris Dodd

The future belongs 100 percent to them, and that is why Arlen Specter and I, almost 30 years ago, started the Children's Caucus in the Senate.

Have you tried anything with--I am curious whether or not, for instance, where instead of having parents' time, you just have father time. So there are only fathers invited?

I am very impressed on how much of that has been replicated.

A lot of the times, the parents that you wanted to reach are the ones whom themselves had bad experiences necessarily in schools.

I was impressed that Kentucky and Arkansas have developed school-wide systems. I mean, I say this respectfully of Kentucky and Arkansas, but I don't normally think of them as being so on the forefront of some of these issues.

There is about a 20 percent increase in kids in school who are homeless, and one quarter--only one quarter of homeless children graduate from high school nationally.

I want to thank Senator Dodd for allowing me the opportunity to testify, and look forward to answering any questions about this exciting initiative.

I have always been very, very proud--a lot of the ideas that I have championed over the years... have come from this State.

We are headed for the highest child poverty rate since the 1960s.

Thank you for being here.

Very excited about your project.

If the American people and others feel that sense of trust and confidence in our financial system, that in itself will have its own reward.

We are committed by the legislation and by our own approach, to requiring more capital of systemically critical firms.

I think even my views changed and were modified a bit as we went through the process.

I have a great deal of confidence it can be done, and I appreciate your response to Senator Bunning.

I opposed that idea because of the very answer you just gave to my question.

I would like to be able to move our nominees for the Federal Reserve out of committee before the August break.

I hope your assessment is correct.

The Committee will come to order.

Importantly, to spur pediatric device development and under the leadership of Senator Christopher Dodd...

Senator Chris Dodd in particular deserves great credit for his passionate leadership over the course of his career to improve the health of children.

Under the leadership of Senator Dodd and the members of this committee, over the past decade, Congress created and reauthorized two critical programs that have dramatically improved the practice of medicine for children.

Congress has helped, in a bipartisan way, in this fight against rare and neglected disease.

We can't talk about rare diseases without talking about children.

Today's hearing is an important topic not just for children's health, but family health.