[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10280]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRATS EXPAND HEALTH CARE COVERAGE

  (Mr. ALTMIRE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ALTMIRE. Madam Speaker, this is Covering the Uninsured Week, so I 
wanted to take this opportunity to remind my colleagues about the 9 
million children in America that live without health insurance. I also 
wanted to take the opportunity to remind the American people that just 
last month, the Democratic Congress passed a 2008 budget that includes 
a $50 billion increase in funding for the State Children's Health 
Insurance Program, and we did it without raising a penny of taxes. By 
contrast, the President submitted a budget that, according to the 
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would cut 1 million additional 
children out of the Children's Health Insurance Program.
  Thankfully for the American people, Madam Speaker, Democrats rejected 
the President's budget in favor of one that expands health care for 
children.

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