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Community Health Center Funding

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 25, 2017
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care

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Madam Speaker, I rise to remind my colleagues that we have just 4 days to authorize mandatory funding for our Nation's Community Health Centers.

If Congress fails to act before September 30, the Community Health Center program will suffer a 70 percent cut to its funding. Our constituents and our economy will suffer the consequences.

Without this funding, an estimated 2,800 health center facilities will be forced to close, 51,000 medical professionals will lose their jobs, and 9 million patients will lose access to the care they rely on.

The critical role Community Health Centers have in serving patients is beyond dispute, and it should be beyond partisanship.

While our Senate colleagues are scrambling to meet a self-imposed deadline, they are ignoring real deadlines that we must meet. We must fund these health centers this week, or we will be responsible for the economic and human cost of our inaction.

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