[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 28612-28613]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               URGING PRESIDENT TO SIGN SCHIP LEGISLATION

  (Ms. TSONGAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. TSONGAS. Madam Speaker, just 2 weeks ago today, tens of thousands 
of residents from the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts 
supported my candidacy because they wanted to make sure that all our 
children have health insurance. Two days later, I began my service to 
the Fifth District by proudly voting to override President Bush's veto 
of a children's health care bill that had overwhelming bipartisan 
support.
  Unfortunately, the veto was upheld, but the fact remains that 
millions of children that need health care don't have it.
  Last Thursday, I again voted to expand the Children's Health 
Insurance

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Program, a program that was first developed in Massachusetts and is now 
critical to the newly enacted Massachusetts health insurance plan. 
Every concern raised by the President has been clearly addressed in 
this bill, but he still threatens to veto it.
  I will stand with the strong bipartisan majority, ready to overturn 
this veto and give 200,000 children in Massachusetts and millions more 
across the country a chance at a healthy, safe future. I urge the 
President to sign the bill.

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