[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 150 (Thursday, October 4, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      POLITICAL POSTURING ON SCHIP

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, we have seen an incredible amount of 
political posturing this week over SCHIP. The SCHIP program was created 
in a bipartisan effort to ensure poor children without health insurance 
have health care coverage. Poor children without insurance. Children, 
not adults. Some States have more adults on SCHIP than children. Poor 
children, not families making $83,000 a year, to get free health 
insurance. Poor children without insurance.
  Under the Democrat bill, one in three children who already have 
private insurance would drop their private coverage to get free 
government coverage.
  Let's ensure poor children have health coverage and do it in a 
bipartisan way, not shutting out Republicans the way they did in this 
last bill.
  This Democrat Congress truly is a dysfunctional Congress. They can't 
even get SCHIP reauthorization right.

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