[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24685]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 SCHIP

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a strong supporter of 
the State Children's Health Insurance Program, SCHIP, and I support a 
responsible reauthorization of this very successful program.
  Everybody knows it is going to expire on September 30, unless 
Congress passes reauthorizing legislation by this date. However, the 
Democrat leadership in the House and the Senate have been unsuccessful 
in completing the package.
  I am proud today to stand as an original cosponsor of legislation 
that would reauthorize SCHIP for a period of 18 months. By 
reauthorizing the program for an additional 18 months, we are taking 
the politics out of SCHIP policy and protecting the children who are in 
this program and who deserve the care. It is an extension of the 
program that we need; and, if it is not enacted, at least 12 States are 
going to find themselves without SCHIP funds.
  There is a very simple solution to the SCHIP problem: Support the 
Barton-Deal SCHIP legislation.

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