Hillary Clinton

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

Well, maybe one of the things we can work on is getting a better idea of how the Teens for Teens program works in the Red Bank High School and see if there are some models that we could use right here.

I thank Alan for being here with us.

A plan of action has to be put into effect now for the weeks surrounding September 11, 2002.

I thank her for once again being here to help.

There is not a more important issue for our metropolitan region than making sure that our children and their health is attended to.

Thank you very much. Well, we are going to call up the third panel so that we can hear finally this panel, some experts in this area both here in the New York area as well as in other parts of the country.

I am very honored that Chairman Kennedy was so interested in this subject that he authorized this important field hearing

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

So I am hoping that your very straightforward statement that it is still the recommendation of the National Cancer Institute that women, staring at the age of 40, have mammograms, will give us the ammunition we need to avoid further…

Thank you very much, and thank you for holding this hearing.

Is it fair to say that your testimony today reflecting the NCI position is that all women should get regular mammograms after the age of 40, or is it that women should be provided with information about the benefits and risks which they…

I could not agree more with the point that Fran Visco made about the inequitable distribution of resources with respect to dealing with breast cancer.