[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22155]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             THE CHAMP ACT

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Good morning, Madam Speaker. You know, it's simple: If 
America is the greatest country in the world, then all our children 
should have health care. That's what Democrats believe.
  Today, we're going to pass the CHAMP Act to provide health insurance 
to an additional 5 million children here in America, the children of 
the working poor. Who are the working poor? They're the people, one-
half of them women, who work in service industries, who work in retail. 
They're laborers, they're the self-employed. Their employees don't 
provide health insurance, and they can't afford it. They barely make 
ends meet.
  Now, with this bill we will move a long way toward the goal of 
providing universal health insurance for all American children, and I 
think that's a good idea. Now, during the course of the day you're 
going to hear lots of arguments, arguments about processing and why 
this wasn't fair or done in the right way. You will hear arguments 
about cost. But let me tell you, at the end of the day, that is all 
just empty rhetoric and rationalizations. Because the fact is, if 
America is the greatest country in the world, then all our children 
should have health insurance. Period.

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