[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION

  (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Madam Speaker, an ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure. And SCHIP is prevention, as well as an important 
investment in our children and the future of our country.
  If we don't make an adequate investment now to provide access to 
health care for our children, we will pay for it later. When is the 
White House going to get it?
  And it must include all children. So let's not agree with the 
Republicans to put up barriers to doing that. Democrats opposed citizen 
documentation in Medicaid and we must oppose it now. It will hurt poor 
children and children who are racial and ethnic minorities, the 
children who need it most.
  The anti-immigrant rhetoric that is raising its ugly head in this 
body is hurting our country. We must not let it hurt our children.
  Not covering all poor legal immigrant children and requiring excess 
documentation is un-American. Let's end this today with SCHIP, and 
let's pass a bill that moves us closer to full coverage and to being 
the better country we ought to be.

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