[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 30 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H818-H819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, during the time it takes me to give these 
remarks today, two American children will lose their health insurance. 
One minute, two children. Three thousand three hundred every day of the 
year added to the ranks of the uninsured. Children are losing their 
health insurance at twice the rate of adults. This is truly a national 
crisis.
  Last weekend in Hershey, PA, Members of the Congress from both sides 
of the aisle came together for a bipartisan retreat. We talked about 
the importance of working together and finding common ground on 
important issues that face American families.
  Surely we can all agree that there is no issue more important to our 
families than our children, for they are the future of this Nation. Let 
us pledge to work together, Democrats and Republicans, to see that 
every child in America has basic health care coverage. Let us come 
together and pledge to strengthen our families and to put the expansion 
of health care for children at the top of our legislative agenda.

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