(CBS) Former Secretary of State James Baker will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to push legislation designed to cut down on the number of drowning deaths of children in swimming pools and spas.

The legislation offers incentive grants to states that pass laws requiring safeguards to prevent drowning and the entrapment or entanglement of kids in pool and spa drains.

Baker will speak publicly Tuesday for the first time about the accidental death of his 7-year old-granddaughter, Virginia Graeme Baker, who drowned four years ago at a backyard pool party when she became trapped by the powerful drain suction in a hot tub.

Virginia's mother, Nancy Baker, will also talk about the tragedy and what can be done to prevent similar pool and spa related deaths.

On The Early Show Tuesday, Baker told co-anchor Julie Chen about the day Graeme, as they called her, died.

"I jumped in, and pulled and pulled and pulled, and I couldn't remove her. I thought at the time that she'd been murdered, that she was wired down. I'd never heard of entrapment. ... i accept her death. I don't accept the circumstances."

Baker appeared with Dr. Martin Eichelberger, President and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide, a global network of organizations whose mission it is to prevent accidental injuries to children 14 and under. Eichelberger is also a pediatric surgeon and director of Emergency Trauma and Burn Services at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

"If you understand that, just in the last two weeks, we've had eight children die in the United States, we understand this is a significant problem," Eichelberger stressed. "Entrapment is part of the overall drowning problem. Entrapment is that point where a child can actually get stuck on the (filtration system) drain, and it's so forceful that you can't actually pull the child off. … A grown man can't pull -- the suction is 400 to 500 pounds of pressure. So it's a relatively important thing for parents to understand, that there's something that we can do to prevent these injuries from occurring."

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