Sen. Hillary Clinton and Rep. Jerrold Nadler said in a statement that they will "conduct companion hearings into the failures of the federal government in responding to the environmental crisis that resulted" from the buildings' collapse, which spewed hundreds of tons of potentially toxic dust into the air of lower Manhattan.

Clinton is chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, while Nadler chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

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Senator Clinton is vouching for her fellow New York senator's commitment to the city after the World Trade Center attacks.

Mrs. Clinton, who has carved out post-September 11 health-related issues as part of her senatorial portfolio, made a point of saying last night that she and Senator Schumer "especially worked closely together after 9/11."

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is helping to arrange the first Senate hearing on the medical needs of Ground Zero workers, and Mayor Bloomberg is expected to testify, Clinton's office said yesterday.

The health committee hearing is to focus on the future medical needs of workers at the site. Doctors and patients from the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program are also expected to testify.

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Two days after announcing her presidential run, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is pushing the president to do more to help World Trade Center first responders.

The state's junior senator was at the World Trade Center site Monday with other lawmakers including Senator Charles Schumer, to call attention to the cause she's been championing for years.

The group was calling on President George W. Bush to commit nearly $2 billion in his budget to treat those who fell ill in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attack.

“Without the president's budget commitment, the program that is treating many of these victims will end,” said Clinton.

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The son of a retired cop battling a life-threatening illness he caught at Ground Zero is going to Washington with Sen. Hillary Clinton for the State of the Union message, Clinton's office announced yesterday.

Clinton invited Ceasar Borja, 21, to be her guest at the Capitol Tuesday in a bid to raise awareness and funds for Ground Zero veterans stricken with illnesses.

Clinton spokesman Phillipe Reines said the senator got the idea after reading about 52-year-old Cesar Borja in the Daily News.

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On September 12, 2001, Hillary Clinton gave a speech on the Senate floor in which she sounded much like President Bush, saying that the country should “make very clear that not only those who harbor terrorists but those who in any way give any aid or comfort whatsoever will now face the wrath of our country.” She added, “You are either with America in our time of need or you are not.”

When we met recently in her office in the Russell building, I mentioned that speech, calling it “pretty pugnacious.”

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Senator Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Edward Kennedy wrote a letter to President George W. Bush Friday, to make sure those suffering 9/11 related health problems get adequate funding in the president's 2008 budget proposal.

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New York, NY - Thank you, Pete. Thank you very much. Well, it is a great privilege and honor to be back here at the Council and I want to thank Pete for that kind introduction. It's another small world story; I had no idea he had ever lived in Park Ridge, Illinois. And I want to congratulate you, Pete, on the recent re-naming of the Institute for International Economics in your honor. That is a great tribute to the wonderful service that you have provided to the public over many years at the Council and government and now at what will be known as the Peterson Institute.

I last spoke here in December 2003. Richard Haass was just settling into his new job. Saddam Hussein had been captured the weekend before. At that time I advanced the idea espoused by the Council that American internationalism is essential in the service of American interests.