[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23545]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE

  (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARBANES. Madam Speaker, 10 years ago the Children's Health 
Insurance Program was instituted. Since then, 6 million children have 
been given access to private health care insurance in this country. It 
was absolutely the right thing to do.
  But new evidence from the Census Bureau released last week suggests 
that we are now slipping backwards. The number of children without 
health insurance coverage in this country increased from 8 million in 
2005 to 8.7 million in 2006. That is why we passed 4 weeks ago the 
CHAMP Act which would increase insurance coverage for children to an 
additional 5 million children in this country. That's the direction we 
need to be going in.
  Unfortunately, the President is threatening to veto the CHAMP Act. I 
hope the President will reconsider, stop posturing on this issue, and 
do the right thing by America's children.

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