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Financial Services And General Government Appropriations Act, 2008

Floor Speech

Date: June 28, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Health and Health Care


FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008 -- (House of Representatives - June 28, 2007)

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Mr. HOYER. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, at this time, however, I would like to mention a matter. I would have liked to ask for a unanimous consent. I will not ask for that unanimous consent because it has not been agreed to. And under our rules, I therefore am constrained to ask for the unanimous consent.

The Senate passed yesterday, by unanimous consent, without objection, obviously, by definition, the Transition Medical Assistance and Abstinence Education Program. That program is a program which provides for transitional medical assistance for those who transit from welfare to work. It's a very important program. It, unfortunately, expires on June 30. We will not
be here on June 30. This could have been passed, and I would hope would have been passed by unanimous consent. Unfortunately, that has not occurred, and therefore I will not be offering, as I said, such request.

I would say, however, that it will be our intention to offer this as soon as we return the first week that we're back. We believe this is very important to pass. And as a result, we will move it as quickly as we can.

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