Providing For Consideration Of H.R. 2, Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act Of 2009

Floor Speech

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Ms. DeLAURO. I rise in strong support of the Children's Health Insurance Program. In this transformational moment, we stand poised to reauthorize this bipartisan program which provides critical health care coverage to more than 6 million children who would otherwise go without care, including more than 13,000 in my home State of Connecticut.

With an economy shedding jobs like never before, we have an economic and a moral responsibility to cover the most vulnerable among us. In this country, where 9 million children are uninsured, we cannot let another day go by without passing this legislation, a smart investment in children, in their health and in their success at school and in life. Dental, mental health care for children, coverage for pregnant women, more efficient administration, higher quality care for children, reducing childhood obesity, meeting our commitment to fiscal responsibility.

The choice before us today is a simple one. It is about fulfilling America's promise as a place of hope, possibility and opportunity for our Nation's children.

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