House Proceeding on Dec 19th, 2007 :: 1:25:44 to 1:27:34
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Speech By: Fortney Pete Stark

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Fortney Pete Stark: yield myself 15 seconds before i yield to the gentlelady from tennessee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barton: to point out that the subregulatory guideline that

1:25:44 to 1:25:59( Edit History Discussion )

Joe Barton: mr. emanuel referred to requires states to show a good faith effort to cover 95% of those children below 200% of poverty before they cover children above 250% of poverty. with that i

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Speech By: Joe Barton

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Joe Barton: yield two minutes to the gentlelady from tennessee, a member of the committee, mrs. blackburn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mrs.

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Joe Barton: blackburn: thank you, y madam speaker. i want to compliment mr. barton and mr. deal for the traordinary amount of work they have done on this issue this entire year. i know that they are

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Joe Barton: pleased that the congressional leadership has joined them in working to be certain that we take the politics out of this issue and we keep that focus on how we address the health care needs

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Joe Barton: of our nation's most vulnerable. our children and our elderly. a couple of things that we are going to see in this bill. as you have already heard the medicare physician payment schedule, the

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Joe Barton: cut that was to take place is not going to, they are going to see a half percent increase through june, 2008. my hope is that we will be able to have the majority work with us to resolve

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Joe Barton: this issue. i think it is just unconscionable that every single year this s.g.r. gets revisited and try to work it through. we know that this is something we are going to be providing.

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Joe Barton: it is a service. health care is going to be provided for our medicare enrollees. madam speaker, this needs to be dealt with and the problem needs to be solved. i am also pleased that schip is going to

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Frank Jr.Pallone: be extended through march, 2009. that we are keeping the focus there on standing in the gap between those children that are not eligible for medicare and those that have the ability to

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Speech By: Frank Jr.Pallone