[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 158 (Thursday, October 18, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT'S VETO

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, today the liberal leadership of this 
House will attempt to override the President's veto of SCHIP.
  For weeks, they have been taking to the airwaves and talking about 
anybody that opposes this bill is against disadvantaged children. Well, 
that's just not what this bill is about.
  Their bill would change a block grant program to an entitlement; it 
would provide taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants; it 
would add more adults and what the IRS calls high-income families to 
the government health care rolls. It would even remove people from 
private insurance rolls and place them on the government rolls. And, 
most important, it's going to move that decision between a doctor and a 
patient to a bureaucrat. Well, that is what they are for.
  I suggest that we show respect for the children of the working poor 
that this bill was initially set up to address, that we sustain the 
President's veto. Let's start over. Show the issue the respect it 
deserves.

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