[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20226]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    URGING REAUTHORIZATION OF SCHIP

  (Mr. ALTMIRE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ALTMIRE. Madam Speaker, today House Democrats unveiled the 
Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act. It was endorsed by the 
National Governors Association, a bipartisan group of our Nation's 
Governors, who just last week asked us for urgent action to reauthorize 
the Children's Health Insurance Program.
  The SCHIP program that we are reauthorizing will ensure that millions 
of children have access to high-quality, cost-effective health 
insurance, and it will protect and strengthen the Medicare Trust Fund.
  Now, while the President's budget underfunded this program, knocking 
1 million children off of the rolls of the SCHIP program, I ask my 
colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join us in a bipartisan effort 
to show support for the SCHIP program and reauthorize and support the 
Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act.

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