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Jim McCrery: on the other side of the aisle continue to stand with the president, blocking the way for this vital program to reach more children. we wanted to insure 10 million children. the president and the

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Jim McCrery: republican leaders only want to insure six million children. and that is the crux of the problem here. today we will extend the schip program through march of 2009, but an important aspect

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Jim McCrery: no longer be able to insure children and families whose incomes exceed 250% of federal poverty. $43,000 for a family of free. this is a tragedy. we will fixt. the speaker pro tempore: for

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Jim McCrery: gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. barton: thank you, madam speaker. i hadn't intended to give a one minute today, but i just got off the telephone with one of my dear friends,

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Jim McCrery: and the u.s. senate, he is resigning effective i assume today or tomorrow, whenever the other body goes out. i have known trent lott for the 23 years i have been in the house of representatives.

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Jim McCrery: a great guy personally. he has a great family. he has served not only his state but his country with exemplary distinction for the many odd years he's been in the house and the senate. we

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Jim McCrery: and his family. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. pallone: to address the house for one

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Jim McCrery: to take the opportunity totu thank my press secretary, s heather, who is actually leaving today. and going back to st. louis where she's from with her husband. both used to work for congressman

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Jim McCrery: one minutes and other message opportunities. and also worked very hard to have our weekly message meetings and come up with timely tops and people who would speak. i'm going to sorely miss her.

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Diana DeGette: yields back the balance of his time. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and

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Diana DeGette: nays are ordered, or on which the vote is objected to under clause 6 of rule 20. recorded votes on postponed questions will be taken later. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

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Diana DeGette: senate 2499, an act to amend titles 18, 19, and 21 of the social security act to extend provisions under the medicare, medicaid, and schip programs, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore:

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Diana DeGette: mr. pallone: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration.

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Diana DeGette: control that time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pallone: madam speaker, i yield myself such time ai may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pallone:

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Diana DeGette: included legislation to provide health care to 10 million low-income american children. but we were forced to go it alone. instead of working with us, the president and his republican foot soldiers

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Nathan Deal: million of which are uninsured and come from hard-working families. the act also included dramatic improvements for beneficiaries and providers under medicare which if enacted would have put

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Nathan Deal: regulations which are now about to go into effect and will cut billions of dollars in critical services from low-income and disabled citizens of all ages. some may see the defeat of the

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Nathan Deal: anything from these actions by the president or my republican colleagues, least of all the people who rely on these programs for their health care. this year we had a chance to strengthen

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Nathan Deal: republicans are content on leaving here this year with doing the bear minimum on chip and medicare when we could have accomplished so much more to improve the health of millions of americans. and

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Rahm Emanuel: but with the current president and the current senate, sadly, this is the best we can do. but i will say, madam speaker, the democrats are determined in the next year to revive the champ

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Rahm Emanuel: act and provisions we care so much about because we know that's the best for the american people. and i reserve the balance of my time the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey

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Rahm Emanuel: you, madam speaker. it's difficult to speak on the subject because we debated it so many times in the last 11 1/2 months. suffice it to say that all's well that ends well. and today we have a

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for another year, and a number of other things. these are all good things and people on both sides of the aisle support them. it shouldn't have taken all year to do these things. but it has.

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Jim McCrery: the health subcommittee, and myself introduced seven or eight months ago to extend the existing schip program for 18 months to make sure that all children currently receiving coverage

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Jim McCrery: continue to receive coverage to have a slight increase in funding so some new enrollments could occur. it's a commonsense approach to an issue while we debate with our friends on the majority

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Jim McCrery: populate a national forest in terms of the amount of paper that's been used to cover those speeches. and yet we are here today doing what we could have done 11 months ago. i'm very

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Jim McCrery: that have been covered. and i look forward in the next year, the same offer that congressman deal and mr. mccrery and mr. camp and i have made and our friends in the majority, let's have

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Phil English: introduce draft bills. we could circulate those bills. we could have a bipartisan dialogue. we could have an actual open transparent committee markup in both the ways and means committee and energy

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Phil English: the next 12 months. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. stark: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume.

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Hilda L. Solis: about this bill, the republicans have brought us. . last july we sent to the senate a champ act, a bill that preserved and improved both the medicare and schip programs. the champ act extended

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Hilda L. Solis: health care to children -- 10 million children nationwide. this bill doesn't come close. it was designed by republicans to support their rich friends, the pharmaceutical industry, the for-profit

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Hilda L. Solis: in their truest form, help the rich at the expense of the poor and to deny government services to anyone and only help the profit industries who pay them so generously through their campaign

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Hilda L. Solis: it extends -- it extended the physician's reimbursement above par for two years and protected rural providers for the same period of time. the champ act overrode provisions enacted by

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Hilda L. Solis: designed to privatize the program by republicans. for this effort, house members, republican members and five republican members and the democrats and our staff are to be congratulated. they

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Hilda L. Solis: in this country as is their want. what we have before us gives the lowest common denominator a bad name. the senate has sent us a bill that extends otherwise expiring medicare provisions

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Hilda L. Solis: prevents caps from going into effect, protects rural providers by hosting provision that is would otherwise expire. there are some provisions that wrong longer. schip will go for 15 months,

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Joe Barton: to policies for long-term care hospitals and rehab hospitals, two changes that are long overdue. what's wrong with the bill is what it fails to do. it flat out fails to address real improvements

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Marsha Blackburn: benefits and nonpayment related reforms to the h.m.o. program. it lacks limits on hospital ownership and self-referral and the list goes on. addingnsult to injury, this bill let's h.m.o. and

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Marsha Blackburn: the insurance industry off virtually scott free, even though med-pack, c.b.o., g.a.o., and the office of the inspector general of the administration's only actuaries confirm we overpay these

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Marsha Blackburn: about it. we still have a strong bill pending in the senate, the champ act. the senate must act early in 2008 so that we can reach a better outcome for medicare. we just can't keep subsidizing

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Marsha Blackburn: california reserves his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. barton: madam speaker, may i inquire as to how much time i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has 17 1/2

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Marsha Blackburn: without objection, the gentleman from louisiana is recognized. mr. mccrery: thank you, madam speaker. you know, i agree with some of the comments that have been made by the majority today. not

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Marsha Blackburn: has pointed out on more than one occasion, though, this process was pretty much doomed from the start because the majority failed to include the minority at all in the early stages of

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Marsha Blackburn: it's tough t o govern. it's tough to have the responsibility to actually pass legislation and make law. we did it for 12 years, and we had some troubles ourselves in the first year or so that

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Nita M. Lowey: two, they can try the same thing next year that they did this year and get the same result, and then just wait after the elections and hope that they would have a democratic president, a democratic

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Nita M. Lowey: calendar year. i would extend at least from my committee's standpoint, extend that invitation again next year, and i'm hopeful we can do it. this bill before us today covers more than the schip