[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 25653]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 SCHIP

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I came to the floor earlier today and spoke 
very favorably of my friend, Charles Grassley from Iowa, and he 
deserved that attention that I gave him, those accolades that I 
extended to him.
  I also want to extend my appreciation to Senator Hatch, who has 
worked on this. He is a member of the Finance Committee. He did an 
outstanding job and helped us get to the point where we are now. We are 
going to talk more about SCHIP tomorrow. I do not want those who worked 
so hard on this side to think that I have forgotten about them just 
because I said so many nice things about Senator Grassley.
  Senator Baucus, the chairman of the committee, has been a champion 
from the very beginning. He worked hard to try to explain to everyone 
that we could not do everything the House wanted to do, even though he 
and I wanted to do that.
  The same applies to Senator Rockefeller, who is the subcommittee 
chair who worked on this. He did a wonderful job. He attended meetings 
with the House when his presence was extremely important.
  I want to make sure that everyone understands the great work done by 
Senators Baucus, Grassley, Hatch, and Rockefeller as members of the 
Finance Committee to get us to a point where tomorrow sometime we will 
finish our work on SCHIP.

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