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Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 -- Veto Message from the President of the United States

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 3, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Health and Health Care


CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2007--VETO MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110-62) -- (House of Representatives - October 03, 2007)

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Mr. DOGGETT. The Republicans charge that we want to help so many children with no insurance and that we want to allow them so much time to reconsider their indifference. We plead guilty as charged.

This President? It's like the book title, Dead Certain but also Dead Wrong.

The only question is how many children will be dead or will suffer with disease and disability until enough Members of this Congress are willing to stand up to the President and stand up for children.

President Bush has ideological blinders. He is never around the children of the working poor, the child who sobs with an earache, the child who moans as a result of an abscessed tooth, who has no antibiotics for a strep throat, and the poor parent who lacks the ability to do something about it.

The President's veto today is neither sound fiscal policy nor good medicine, and his solution that these Republicans embrace of ``just go to the emergency room'' is neither compassionate nor conservative.

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