[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 12 (Monday, January 22, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH PLAN

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow we will hear the State of the 
Union address from the President, and one of the issues that he will 
highlight in his speech tomorrow night is the need for expanded health 
care for Americans.
  This is something that the Republicans in Congress have focused on 
for several years, and it is with excitement that we anticipate the 
President's remarks tomorrow night as he talks about small business 
health care, talks about small business health plans and how expanding 
small business health plans to 40 million uninsured Americans, 60 
percent of whom work in small businesses, will help more and more 
families to be able to control their health care and their health care 
expense, their health care decisions, and preserve their right to 
access to physicians of their choice.
  We know that by giving small businesses the opportunity to band 
together, they will have greater options. And we know that this will 
reduce the number of uninsured Americans.
  We look forward to the President's plan for expanding health care 
through small business health plans.

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