as we call upon your holy name and then our heads in prayer for you can inspire awe says you have inspired others throughout the ages make us instruments of peace and towers of strength because of our practice of self control give to your people both in government here in this chamber and living across the nation the wisdom to see that no good life can come to us without good discipline give us the grace to discipline our speech so that we may speak with honesty and clearly that will only benefit others and not confuse or ridicule others help us to discipline our think you know our actions so that others may be edified by the way democracy works accomplishes the will of the people for the lasting good of the people and gives you glory now and forever in the chairs examine the journal of the last day's proceedings announces to the house her pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from pennsylvania please join me in a place i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god madam speaker i rise today to recognize one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the town in which i grew up coggan iowa coggins motto is the one and only indeed there is only one c like so many small towns across our country is a place people are proud to call home i know that the people of color are going to prescience a genial nature and the proud history of the town the name cogon was agreed upon at a banquet held with the clemens house in eight eighty eight superintendent t spaulding suggested that he had received a letter from his cousin william coggan and thought the name would be appropriate at that time superintendent spaulding was supervising the construction of the illinois central railroad through the town this railroad would later prove to be an economic engine for coggan to bring in economic development encouraging the growth of businesses and on july twenty fourth eight hundred eighty eight the settlement became coggan iowa today the small wonderful town is populated by seven hundred forty five madam speaker today i rise to congratulate and praise an exceptional individual who has dedicated himself to serving our nation in the men and women of fort bragg north carolina gary knight is a remarkable person and i want to acknowledge his accomplishments and efforts as he retires on november the first two thousand and seven after over forty years of public service i'm proud have had the opportunity to work with him closely as deputy garrison commander of fort bragg and i'm honored to call him my friend a native new yorker who grew the deputy sheriff commanded fort bragg gary runs the day to day operations of the largest military installation in the world there is efforts in exceptional performance in support of the army's finest war fighter is ford's the epicenter of the universe into a more efficient army peer civilian service award in the commander's award for civilian service and achievement medal for civilians or was denied his wonderful wife diana an army veteran and career civil service member and four children gary bobby stacey and melissa reason that so many democrats and republicans support the chip reauthorization act is that it is consensus legislation that was crafted in a bipartisan fashion over the last ten years the children's health program has proven to be a popular and successful program with six children currently receiving quality private health care it costs less than three dollars and fifty cents per day to cover a child through the chip program insuring kids is also cost effective for taxpayers who end up picking up the tab for indigent care in our emergency rooms the most expensive way to care for a child's health a child is also more likely to succeed in education and life if they have access to health care at an early age and it certainly benefits our nation in the long run madam speaker i would hope more my for actually some ninety thousand people will likely die this year from an infection they pick up in a hospital or receiving health care tragic news we also hear about students in school who die from mers infections above but the point is hospitals are taking actions to reduce his infection rates and yet congress is not doing anything to help address this issue we can do something about it by passing legislation i've been to do so h r eleven seventy four the healthy hospitals act my legislation would require hospitals report infection rates after all people can find out if their lines on time one not be able to find out if your hospital is infection free nine hundred states currently require reporting and several other states are considering legislation and medicare earlier this summer said they're working on plans to deny house for reimburse good morning madam speaker today the house will vote to override the president's veto of the s chip bill at the beginning of this debate some months ago i said the from america's the greatest country in the world then we ought to guarantee all of our children has health insurance greatness is not measured by the size of our military industrial complex greatness is measured by whether we can run health insurance for ten million american children now the president has said no but according to all the polls the american people say yes majorities in both house houses have said yes governors have said yes private charities have said yes that we ought to provide health insurance for children in america this is not a matter of a market fix small businesses cannot afford to pay to provide health insurance working families many of them cannot afford to buy health insurance on the private market in addition this bill provides a guarantee of dental coverage because in america the greatest country children should not die because they don't have dental coverage on a kind of expired a bill provides dental coverage mental health coverage it's simple we're the greatest country we would provide health insurance like a man bigger october twenty first through october twenty seventh will be national save for retirement week i hope folks take a few moments next week to look at their personal savings and see what more they can do to save for retirement saving for retirement can be an overwhelming task if left to the last minute just like most things in life if you fail to plan you plan to fail retirement doesn't have to be that way you can choose to save to learn retirement planning tips and to complete a ballpark estimate on how much it will cost you to live in retirement go to the website choose to say dot org it's time for you to start planning your future retirement today do it now for purposes a gentlewoman from california right gentleman is recognized for one minute madam speaker ten years ago the children's health insurance program was created in a strong bipartisan fashion to ensure more low income children had access to quality health care today thanks to chip six million children who would otherwise be uninsured can see the doctor of their family's choice in the time they want for the first eight years of the chip program the number of uninsured children fails and efficiently but that changed two years ago and the trend continued last year when seven hundred thousand more children joined the ranks of the uninsured that was simply unacceptable to many of us here in congress and that's why we crafted a final bipartisan agreement that not only continues to provide health care access to six million kids who are already in the program but also to four million others who are also eligible for chip if the president had his way the number of uninsured children would go up by at least eight hundred yes and over the next year that is why what purpose the gentleman from tennessee wri without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute thank you madam speaker you know today is the liberal leadership of this house will attempt to override the president's veto on s g a for weeks i've been taking to the airwaves and talking about anybody that opposes this bill is against disadvantaged children well that's just not what this bill is about their bill would change a block grant program to an entire all meant it would provide taxpayer funded health care to illegal immigrants it would add more adult and what the i r s calls high income families to the government healthcare rolls it would even remove people from private insurance rolls and place them on the government rolls and most importantly gets going to move that decision between a doctor and a patient to a bureaucrat whether that is what they are for i suggest that we show respect for the children of the working poor that this bill was a nationally set up to address that we sustain the president's veto let's start over shove the issues around the back on a six arc i go back to what purpose the gentleman from california ross has one minute madam speaker the gentleman is recognized for one minute thank you madam speaker today we have the opportunity to right or wrong the president's wrong in vet this veto is an error the bush administration has embarked on the misinformation campaign this legislation does not expand s chip eligibility it does not extend coverage to households with incomes up to eighty three thousand dollars a year and it does not promote verman run health insurance rather this legislation is targeted uninsured american children living in poverty children who already qualify for s chip but that don't have health care due to a lack of funding one of the most important reforms in this legislation is a creation of an incentive fun states to enroll the four mils again children who could only are eligible for the program but are not enrolled and further this legislation phases out the use of s chip funds to cover d that objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute thank you madam speaker this summer some of the most powerful members of congress the house and the senate advocated a return of censorship to the airwaves of america in the form of the so called fairness doctrine an along with more than two hundred of my colleagues in a deuce the broadcaster freedom act it would ensure that no future president could regulate the airwaves of america without an act of congress and yesterday house republicans introduced a discharge petition to bring the broadcaster freedom act to the floor of congress in one day madam speaker over one hundred and twenty five members of congress signed this petition the american people should know if two hundred eighteen members of congress signed this petition we can have an up or down vote on legislation that would keep the fairness doctrine from ever coming back i urge my colleagues republicans and democrats if you believe in broadcast freedom if you believe in the freedom of the press if you believe the freedom of the