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John Lewis: gentleman from georgia, mr. lewis for one minute and he understands that the aarp has endorsed this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. louis louis -- >> at ng last we were due for this right for our nation's poorest children.

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John Lewis: we expand schip to four million more children. we have a mission and an obligation and a mandate to provide health insurance for all americans and now we have a congress and a president who will meet that obligation for our children. it has taken too long, this

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Phil Gingrey: care. today we will do what is right and ss the expansion of schip. thank you, madam speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from missouri. mr. blunt: i yield one minute to dr. gingrey from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one

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Phil Gingrey: minute. mr. gingrey: i rise in opposition to h.r. 2, not because of the four million children expansion as my colleague from georgia on the other side of the aisle, distinguished representative john lewis just said, it's not that. it's that we are expanding beyond the original intent of the bill.

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Phil Gingrey: gimmick disregard to lower so they become eligible. that's wrong and that's gaming the system. if you had allowed a modified open re so we could have brought amendments to correct that and other things, then i would certainly be very comfortable and enthusiastic in

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Diana DeGette: and have to resort to the emergency room for treatment like an ear infection. today's bill will help these families, but with a number of changes that will vastly improve the legislation. it allows states to give coverage to pregnant women and pele who are here legally and provides outreach and enrollment procedures.

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Marsha Blackburn: we need to provide this care for our kids because in the most civilized country in the world no child should go without health care. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from missouri. mr. blunt: i yield one minute to ms. blackburn. mrs. blackburn: it is so interesting as we have this

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Marsha Blackburn: debate. schip as it was originally put in place is something that we are all for. that program as a block grant program worked well. but here is a 2385-page bill that the democrat majority laid on the table yesterday about 1:00. in that bill, it allows for

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Marsha Blackburn: this bill, this bill will actually crowd out a lot of the low-income children who have benefited from being on the schip program.

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Bill Jr.Pascrell: you don't get it. you don't understand it. so i'm in so stroning support of the program, which does re-authorize this fiscally responsible, reasonable and this is long overdue. ensuring health insurance for

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Bill Jr.Pascrell: unemployment climbs, the ranks of the uninsured swell and the rolls of our safety net programs grow.

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Lee Terry: if this bill would pass today, construction on this facility has to stop because it's a 40% -owned by physicians. the other partner in here is the hospital. we have two facilities like this in my district. now, not only is it appalling that we are going to have to

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Anna G. Eshoo: there are no other medical facilities in this general area. this will be it. and we will be shutting this down. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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Anna G. Eshoo: ms. eshoo: i thank the chairman of our subcommittee, mr. pallone, to mr. dingell, to mr. waxman and everyone that's been involved in shaping this legislation. senator hubert humphrey was fond of saying that a society is measured of how it treats those in the autumn of their lives and

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Anna G. Eshoo: today, we put down a magnificent down payment to ensure health care for 11 million children in our country. this is a smartly drafted bill. why? because it is responsible because it is paid for. over 90% of the providers are private sector.

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Steve Buyer: forward to its passage and what it will do to strengthen our country and insure our country's children. mr. blunt: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from indiana, mr. buyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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Steve Buyer: mr. buyer: a lot of my colleagues voted against the balanced budget of 1997 actually voted against e schip program. you are now accusing republicans when we passed this bipartisan bill. please don't do that. i'm not going to say you were against children because you voted against the balanced

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Steve Buyer: program when we worked with bill clinton and said we were going to take care of those children. the states got overeager and excited and expanded the eligibility. now as the economy turns down, now we have president-elect obama -- additional 30 seconds. now we have in the stimulus plan

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Steve Buyer: you are about to cover 700,000 adults. by 2013 we could have more in the program.

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Suzanne Kosmas: it's an opportunity for parents to provide health care, working families, to provide health care for their children. in these tough economic times we have more and more families which are unemployed or underemployed and this gives them an opportunity to give their children the health care they need and deserve. with many of them providing

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Dan Burton: thing to do, but this is an economic investment that we're making in the future of those who will carry us forward into the next generation. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired the gentleman from missouri. mr. blunt: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from indiana, mrburton. the spear pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

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Dan Burton: mr. burton: i don't want to discuss things that have already been discussed, but things that concern me is things like this will be a magnet for more illegal aliens because they will get coverage under this bill. it's going to cost 4 billion more than the baseline and involve a tax increase. you know, one of the things that concerns me about what we're

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Dan Burton: well as about today because the inflation they are going to face is going to be huge. you have to print this money. it's got to come from someplace. and the kids will have to pay

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Mark Green: it re-authorizes schip through 2013, extends schip coverage to seven million children already enrolled, but the schip progr covers four million more children. 11 million children will be covered under schip when we pass this bill. the bill includes a provision that i'm proud that's in there, h.r. 465, immigrant children's health improvement act, which gives states the option to cover

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Tom Latham: health care. madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent for the remainder of my statemt to be in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from missouri. mr. blunt: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from iowa, mr. latham. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from iowa is recognized for one min. mr. latham: i thank the gentleman. madam speaker, there is no question the state children's health insurance program needs to be re-authorized and provided

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Tom Latham: with the funds necessary to maintain current coverage and enroll currently eligible low-income children. in the past i have supported bipartisan legislation that presented the input of both parties to re-authorize the schip program. h.r. 976, h.r. 3963 including the legislation that was vetoed by president bush.

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Tom Latham: allowing unlimited expansion of the program in the future. furthermore, there are no requirements that a certain level of coverage for low-income children be met before expanding eligibility to higher income groups. second, they have rescind add requirement in current law that noncitizens who are here must legally wait five years to become eligible for the schip

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Chris Van Hollen: madam speaker, this is aoment of important substance and important symbolism. the substance and merits of this bill are clear. we are going to preserve health coverage for seven million american children and expand it to another four million children from working families who earn too much to qualify for medicaid but do not earn enough to

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Chris Van Hollen: able to afford the very high costs of private health insurance. taking this bill up right now also sends a very important signal that change has come to washington, d.c., as a result of the last election. president bush twice vetoed this legislation on children's health. we will soon have a new president, president barack

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Chris Van Hollen: obama, who one of his first acts as president will sign this legislation. a president who understands the hardships american families are struggling under at a time when more than two million americans have lost their jobs in just two months. the difference could not be clearer. mighty veto pen to say no, to

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Chris Van Hollen: veto and protect the status quo. the new president will use that pen to say yes to change the status quo and provide health care to four million new american children as we continue to protect seven million american children. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. van hollen: that's change we can believe in. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri. mr. blunt: could i ask how much time remains on each side? the speaker pro tempore: the

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Chris Van Hollen: gentleman has 90 seconds remaining. mr. herger from california has 15 minutes remaining. the gentleman from new jersey has 8 3/4 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california, mr. stark, has nine minutes

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Wally Herger: means committee. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, mr. herger is recognized. the gentleman from california, mr. herger. mr. herger: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. herger: madam speaker, i rise in support of schip and believe its re-authorization is critical to millions of children.

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Wally Herger: mr. herger: madam speaker, i rise in support of schip and believe its re-authorization is critical to millions of children. but i'm opposed to the bill before us today. this make private health coverage more affordable. by expanding a program that severely underpays doctors in my

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Wally Herger: state of california, it may result in higher cost for private coverage. and assuming that the increased tobacco tax achieves the goal of discouraging smoking, it commits an irrational policy of financing a growing program through a declining revenue source. in addition, this new version

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Wally Herger: would effectively shut down physician-owned hospitals currently under construction, including a 0 million project in my distrt in yubea, sit -- yuba city, california, scheduled to open in a couple months. this will be a severe blow to a small county that's long had one of the highest unemployment