two thousand and seven the rule provides one hour debate equally divided among control by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce as a chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on ways and means mr speaker i stand before you on the floor this morning with mixed emotions i guess is this afternoon i won with a majority members of the house are disappointed that we are forced to reintroduce a bill passed by  bipartisan support which would have provided millions of children across the nation with access to health care the memory of what took place here on the house floor mr speaker the house is not an order gentlem place here on the house for a week ago today will not soon be forgotten on that day we saw a few members stand in lockstep with the president and with that deny health care to care coverage for millions of our children however couple with my disappointment mr speaker is a consuming failing of promise i have hope for those children along with the believe that those members who are unable to break away from the president was taken rhetoric will stand for what is right today and vote overwhelmingly pass is vital legislation i feel strongly that what motivated me and so many of my colleagues to come to washington in the first place was the thought that on any day of all could be here all that would improve the lives of millions of people throughout our country and that is exactly the chance that we have been given here today we are again granted the chance to vote for a bill that would ban for medical care in this country improve the health of our youngest and needi citizens and offer new hope for literally millions of children who are otherwise be left without either i think that everyone listening today recognizes the reality of the situation we face should we not act the health care of millions of children will be yanked away on nov sixteenth and not providing health care to millions of children when given an opportunity to do so is appalling but to strip away benefits from those who currently have them is simply indefensible mr speaker and our vote to expand s chip last month we made a genuine dent in one of the most shameful and adequacy of our health care system the lack of coverage for millions of america's children congress created the state child health insurance program in one nine hundred seventy nine one hundred ninety seven with broad bipartisan support including some of my colleagues who now pose it and as a result over six million children currently have health care coverage that otherwise would not in my home state of new york over four hundred thousand children are enrolled the second highest in the nation the s chip reauthorization bill would preserve access to health care for six million children already enrolled in program while bringing desperately needed health care coverage to almost four million more children and as a result in my home state of new york an additional two hundred and sixty eight thousand children who need it will have health care coverage that means they will be able to get thirty minutes ations before starting school or see they did is twenty ever today and this new bill also makes changes by phasing out challenged adults from after one year and also puts in a cap on children whose parents incomes are over three hundred percent above the poverty level in addition the bill also requires states to develop plans and employment recommended best practices house and eighty one percent of the american public including a large majority of republicans support our bipartisan expansion of a sphere yet presented with this overwhelming support from all sides the president decided to dust off as the dopey and and with it deny millions of children access to health care in spite of the unquestionable benefit in spite of the overwhelming popularity and accomplishments of this program s chip is under attack we saw reprehensible smear attack from families who were brought into the public eye to showcase the benefits of the program in the face of a life saving chance it was bestowed on a family do this program the harshest reg was not cast against the bill but against this family including the children which are persons go to the home of one of the families and harass them in public talk radio and blogs made wild an audacious accusations and we even saw staff on capitol hill who clearly intended to assist this fabricated cold hearted smear campaign is beyond comprehension to me that mayor willing to score political points by denigrating our nation's children particularly those who owe their brain lives to this program but the american people saw through the attacks they understood that the health of our nation's children is simply not worth scoring a few political points mrs baker the present chastises a thirty five billion dollar bill which is fully paid for as too expensive and with the same breath he seeks an additional one hundred ninety billion for the iraq war all of which is at the expense of the taxpayer this is simply unconscionable when you realize the amount of money it takes to provide they are here for ten million children for an entire year is what we spend in iraq in just forty one days we need to get our priorities overturning the veto by just thirteen votes to those members who know that providing health care to volman children is the right thing to do i say to you join with democrats and republicans and with the american people in passing the bill today healthy children make a healthy nation mr speaker i hope every member takes a long hard look at the bill that we are presenting today and seize not just the words or the numbers but the faces of ten million children whose fate th hold in their very hands it is time to put principle before politics is time to stand in defiance of misplaced priorities and in these times the speaker to vote with our nation's children and provide them to be reported by the rules committee in the first session of the hundred tenth congress a rule that fails even to provide the minority with a substitute amendment and to the underlying legislation that the minority did not receive until seven thirty p m last night might also add perhaps the american public is sold on this but there was not one co sponsor of this bill in this body and when the bill was presented the rules committee last night no one even took credit for those that brought the bill forward said not my bill this is the senate bill an interesting twist of fate mr speaker once again for the third time in as many months i oppose the way this legislation has been brought to the floor without a single legislative markup i pose the fact that despite speaker pelosi is promised to run the most honest open and transparent house in history today we're being provided with process and a product that is none of the above mr speaker what we do have is a bill that neither the republican leadership nor the republican members on the energy and commerce committee nor the administration had any opportunity to participate in crafting what we do have is a process that has been politicized and mischaracterized over and over again by the new democrat majority in the hopes that if the same skewed numbers and faulty facts are repeated enough times and somehow they must be true last night in the rules committee will learn that when it comes to plain pain playing by their own paygo rules the democrat majority wants to have things both ways we learn that this majority only agrees with the facts presented by the congressional office when it suits their needs but like when the c b o estimates that the bill raises taxes enough to pay for the additional thirty five billion dollars in spending that it creates they'd be for it however when confronted by the fact that c b o s to mates that this legislation falls twenty six percent short of the often repeated claim of covering ten million children all of a sudden the c b s calculator is broken and their ability to estimate anything accurately is certainly put at dispute the c b a also estimate under also estimates as my good friend and laig from texas dr michael burgess points out in his testimony late last night in the rules committee that this legislation will move two million children who are already being covered by private health insurance into a washington based system that deliberately under compensates physicians for their services by approximately forty percent creating a net loss for the overall quality of patient care what we do have is a process that for the third consecutive time still increases government spending and dislocate the private marketplace diverting much needed funds away from helping our nation's poorest children one new bit of information that has been represented about this legislation is that it finally prevents undocumented workers and adults from receiving those funds intended to pay for the medical costs of children of the working poor since we got this two hundred ninety three page bill just a few hours ago i'll have to take the democrats at their word but if this is the case it means that despite all of their protests to the contrary and consistent with now vindicated republican criticisms the first two s chip bills passed by the house did cover undocumented workers and adults i would like to congratulate speaker pelosi and the rest of the new democrat leadership team for finally agreeing with what republicans have been saying all along because we all began at the same point and that is if you can't have a fix then there was no problem to begin with we knew there was a problem and they finally admitted it in this new bill mr speaker i'm not here to oppose the idea of the s chip i was that it was a republican controlled congress that created s chip and i support its original true mission statement but h r three nine six three is yet another family camouflaged attempt at slowly siphoning americans from insurance plans in the private market into a washington based government run single payer health care system mr speaker today we have failed to address one of the most serious issues facing our nation how to make health insurance system more affordable and accessible for all americans so most of all i rise to oppose the democrat leadership playing political games with children's health in order to score electoral points it is a well known and often cited axiom that success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan that statement is no more true than in washington d c today where everyone clamors to be associated with success but sets new land speed records and distin them sel from responsibility you see last night in the re rules committee we were told time and time again that the bill being fought brought forward by this rule is not a house product it is a senate compromise that we all just have to support the chairman of the energy and commerce committee my good friend mr dingell reiterated the point over and over again in the committee in his testimony in fact despite asking for one i am still unable to find one house democrat willing to take responsibility for all the shortcomings of this bill and if we can't find one member of the house much less a thousand willing to take credit for this bill th i guess we're simply judge in the bill i say sas or a failure it's pretty obvious which category this falls into mr speaker i ask all of my colleagues to oppose this completely closed rule that breaks every promise made in speaker of the rules committee and i thank you for bringing this opportunity to the floor where congress again will have to make a decision about our priorities the congress will i know in a very strong bipartisan vote to support the children of america  because this has always been as the gentleman indicated a bipartisan anisha ted i first want to acknowledge desisting wished chairman of the energy and commerce committee mr dingell for his work over the years i believe his committee had seven hearings on the legislation regarding to resigning s chip and its sting with share of the house subcommittee mr polonius with us here and also want to acknowledge the great work of charlie rangle the chair of the ways and means committee who has been such a strong advocate for america's children in every way and particular in this and he too had his markups on the bill which improve the bill and i want to acknowledge him and his distinguished chair of the subcommittee mr star but the my highest praise mr chairman goes to the republicans without the republicans we wouldn't even have s chip senator orrin hatch of utah really is the father of this initiative as he tells us t pled with him that they could not provide health insurance for their children because they were working and they were above the poverty line they did not qualify for medicaid and so they their hard work was rewarded not so by not having health insurance for their children and that was where this all began ten years ago under democratic president president clinton and a republican congress this initiative s chip children's health insurance program became the law of the land and god bless that bipartisan effort for making that possible for the health of our children says senator hatch was very much a part of putting this legislation together in the gentleman are right this is largely a senate initiative a senator grassley a former chair of the finance committee who from iowa also a distinguished republican member of the united states  has worked harder than anyone to make this the law of the land again to renew the reauthorized this s chip the children's health initiative by his intellect and in helping shaping the bill by what persuasion and talking to members including his persuasion of many of us who had a far different bill and mind but agreed to the compromises that he had put forth for the good of the children that tell the original bill was vetoed by the president as we all know the detail was not overridden so here we are again with another s chip in the in the image of the bill that received all the attention before but improved upon by suggestions made by our colleagues in the minority our republican colleagues it wasn't that these issues weren't covered in the bill but the clarity sought by the republicans and agreed to by all of us  i think aren't definite improvement on the bill and he's fallen to three areas first it was a question of the now famous unlimited amount of wealth that a person could have in order to be able to avail themselves of that stiff i hesitate to even repeat the charge because it is so on true and it was known to be untrue because none of the waivers for such action were ever given by president bush so that factual the state did not exist but in any event the fact is now and i thank our republican colleagues for insisting upon the clarity that says no one making over three hundred percent of poverty in no state can receive  can allow people to receive the benefits of s chip so there's that cap of three hundred percent of poverty as to who may receive the benefit secondly the question of undocumented those people who are in our country  but are not have not been here and at length of time that would qualify so the un documents are one category and the undocumented are not allowed to receive benefits from this initiative it was clear in the first bill it's even clear in the second bill that cap and who can receive that stronger language as to undertake human dogs undocumented and third the issue of adults adults who are in the program because people thought as a lure to families they could get children in the program republicans objected to that there was an exaggeration of the number of adults who are in the program but nonetheless in the interest of the children the new legislation contains a provision in that adults under one circumstance will be phased out in two years and in another circumstance in one year so that it's a faster faster remov adults from the system as a mother of five so i have to insist that gov still be allowed to provide health care to pregnant women because we cannot talk about the health of our children especially getting up them out to the earliest healthiest start unless we talk about the health of their a pregnant pregnant women so again three areas a cat three hundred percent know illegal aliens to use your term i prefer undocumented are  able to get benefits and adults are phased out of the program their doctor only in the program because the bush administration gave a waiver to enable them to be in the program but nonetheless the that is now out of the question and so we have this opportunity once again for this congress to speak and vote in support of children this is so important people ask me it's a very very positive day for me because when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress i always say the same thing our children our children our children their health the act their education the economic security of their families a safe and healthy environment which they can thrive in a world of peace in which they can reach their fulfillment and on every one of those scores this congress has acted in a strong bipartisan way on behalf of the children health we're talking about today education this congress in a bus strong bipartisan way passed the the biggest package for apology affordability since the g i bill of rights was signed by franklin roosevelt in one nine hundred forty four over sixty years ago and this congress said we are standing with the children in terms of expanding their opportunity health today education and many other in educational initiatives i point that one out because it's a start the economic security the span of their families this congress voted in a very strong bipartisan way to raise the minimum wage the first time it was raised in ten years a strong bipartisan vote and this also in a very strong bipartisan vote we voted for the innovation agenda that competes act our commitment to competitiveness to keep american on the want to keep good paying jobs and businesses in the united states helping the economic security of our families and then the environment in which they live and again in a strong bipartisan way we passed legislation to make the air they breathe the water they drink cleaner all of this was done again strong bipartisan votes highest ethical standard no new deficit spending all of it so that none of the advantages that we were conveying to children would be accompanied with a bill of heaping mountains of debt on to them into the future part of that also was to operate in the most honest and open way and the strong bipartisan way we passed our ethics reform bill so that we are here for the children the interest and not the special interest so this congress this year has had a strong bipartisan record in support of our children and i think both the republicans and the democrats first supporting those initiatives and almost all of that except this s chip has been signed into law by the president of the united states some mention has been made about the fact that there's a fire in calif warner and as one who has had the privilege of representing the great golden state of california for twenty years in the congress one who understands why we had an earthquake and san francisco the earthquake in los angeles and now these disastrous fires we all understand how important it is for members to be at home with their constituents at a time of a natural disaster time of tragedy but that doesn't mean we don't continue with the work of government with mr mr taylor so eloquently said earlier he was with his constituents in mississippi while we passed legislation that affected those people here in the congress and that was the appropriate way to go it was then it is now as a matter of fact i spoke to governor schwarzenegger the other day and acknowledged his leadership in the rapid response of the cow california emergency services team which is the gold standard a model for the town tree i wanted to find out from him what needs he has from the federal government the time we have emergency designation now we have a major disaster designation by the president and i salute the president for making that designation and i thank him for visiting california today according to jet governor schwarzenegger all of the federal resources that are available to those affected by the disaster those resources are accessible to those who can help people with them but we will be taking a bipartisan delegation of appropriators and others who can help meet the needs ones and get a better picture of what's going on the ground there after the fire subsides so this is something that is a very high priority for this speaker of the house the first californian to ever and that's why we're here today which is important not only california's children but children across the country governor knows that a million people have been displaced in california this natural disaster one point two million children in our country will susan one point two million children in california will benefit from this s chip bill that we are passing in the congress today governor understands that he's been a strong supporter of it and he is helping us  to pass this legislation recognizing that we have to get the job done so again i salute him for his leadership and i thank him for his support on s chip earlier this year in the leadership  again their health their education housing really every aspect of their lives and one of the people who spoke there was dr james heckman is a nobel laureate received the nobel prize for his work on economics he's the director for social program evaluation the harris school of public policy at the university of chicago and what he said that day was that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in american society he said a good public policy for our children makes good economic sense that from an economist i know as a mom and a grandmother that it makes good sense to care for the health of our children our members i'm sure across the aisle and all of us here know how important the health of our children and people across america have understood it easter seals was here last week to advocate to let this legislation the march of dimes was here on the day of the vote last week to advocate for this s chip legislation every organization from a a r p the a m a the american medical association to y w c a and everything in between alphabetically catholic hospitals association families usa are out there beating the drum for the passage of this legislation magine easter seals and march of johns within one week s'posed sending hundreds of people to capitol hill to lobby for this legislation it was astounding i hope today when our colleagues have to make a decision about this vote that they will be thinking about the record of bipartisanship on behalf of america's children and families that this congress already has sometimes it's  eclipsed by the disagreement that we have on the war but it is a fine record and it is stronger because it is bipartisan i hope that our colleagues will be thinking about the children some of these little children one of them see taylor he he wasn't a beneficiary of s chip march of dimes helped him through his his early years when he needed health care but he wanted other children to have that because he at age eight years old as the ambassador for the march of dimes knew that it was important to him and therefore it was important to other children as well so i ask my colleagues i mean we're pretty blessed when you think of it think of those of us who will be voting today we all have health it's insurance for our children in my case it's grandchildren my children are grown so so it's not a question of that but you  children who are still god bless you i'm so jealous of your children at home you have health insurance for your children the people we're trying to make happen get this health insurance don't they can't afford it and by the way nearly over ninety percent of them make one fifth of what a member of congress mix one fifth of what a member of congress make so we're talking about people who are playing by the rules who are working to lift themselves into the middle class or to sustain their place in the middle class we're talking about a country who has not as an issue not as a piece of legislation but a deeply held value and ethic that it to be a great nation we have to take care of the health of our children it should almost go without saying but it doesn't and we need the public policy that dr heckman said good public policy for our children we say it's necessary for their health and well being he also says that it is essential to our economy so there's every compassionate humanitarian motherly fatherly family reason to be for this legislation but it also makes good economic sense and by the way it's also makes good national security sense so let's again we've had our moments were like a family here we've had our moments it's time to put the children first i urge all of you to support this legislation was before us for america's children for all of america's children to take our country in a new direction mr speaker gentleman from new york reserve the bounds of our time gentleman from texas thank you mr speaker mister speak the republican party does support s chip we do not support taking two million children that today are in private health insurance programs and moving them to the government washington based run health care program and that is where we offer our differences today on the bill mr speaker i would like you four minutes to the gentleman from pascoe washington gentleman mr hastings come from washington recognized for four minutes thank you mr speaker and i want to thank my friend and colleague on the rules committee from dallas for yielding me the time this is speaker this is this third time the house has considered legislation to renew the state children's health insurance program is a third time that is being considered under a close rule that denies each and every member of this house an opportunity to offer amendment to improve it it's the third time that we republicans first saw the text the night before it comes up for debate it is the third time that the rules committee has met at all hours of the night on these suddenly appearing bills until last night it was until almost midnight the second time we met it was until almost ten p m and the first time we met on this bill mr speaker it was from one a m to three a m in the morning and mr speaker is the third time the democrat bills allows  a thousand sols of adults to sign up for children's health care is a third time it moves those with private insurance into a government run program and it's the third time it doesn't focus on caring for thousands of the poorest kids in our country who are eligible for coverage for coverage today but who haven't been signed up by the individual states last night from nine p m until nearly midnight democrats claim this bill was really different that it hadn't changed they had changed it to address the problems but the nonpartisan analysis by the congressional budget office says that they are flat wrong under this bill we'd have more adults mr speaker on children's health insurance than we do today s chip would actually cost more than the previous bills while covering less kids and that several million enrollees in the program today would leave their private insurance for tax funded programs t isn't a true effort to reach a new accord to renew s chip it's a political game mr speaker being played out is politically tickle worse speaker pelosi who just spoke very eloquently on the floor her website still has a statement on it and i quote from that statement under democrat leadership this congress is changing the way we do business in washington restoring accountability and working together to get the job done and quote i wish this promise wasn't being broken every time that s chip bill is brought to the floor of the house but that is a promise that has been broken and i want to go on since the speaker took spoke so eloquently in her new direction for america she states and i quote regular meetings between chairs and ranking members of the committees and staff should be held and quote that didn't happen on this bill mr speaker that's another promise that was broken and further in her new for direction for america america she states and i quote bill should generally come to the floor under procedure that allow allows open full and fair debate consisting of full amendment process that grants the minority the right to offer its alternatives including a substitute and quote is speaker that's another promise that was broken so to my democrat friends i must say that you can't reach an agreement by only talking to yourselves you don't work together by ignoring republicans hiding the tx of the building from the republicans until the night before the debate shutting down any opportunity for image to be made in order to improve the legislation on the floor in one nine hundred ninety seven a republic in congress a democrat president actually held discussions on creating s chip they talk together work together and reach an agreement to bring private health insurance to the poorest kids in our country that approach was successful and created created this program that is the right approach to reach agreement to renew s chip and to keep the focus on caring for kids that are most in need the tactics last night and day by democrat leaders aren't about bipartisan talks they're about partisan posturing s speaker to me it's terribly disappointing s chip should be renewed and it will be renewed as soon as an off an honest effort is being made on a bipartisan agreement so that that mr speaker i urge my colleagues to vote thank the gentleman for yielding mr speaker i rise today in strong support of baskett and the millions of children from poor families who would be covered by this bill it is critical that we take action immediately to save this important program i wholeheartedly supported earlier versions of that as chip the authorization which would have been in hand to preserve the successful program that has made health insurance a reality for over six million children from low income families i was tremendously disappointed that the president did not agree that strengthening yes chip was a national priority i could not disagree more with him but i responded to his opposition the house leadership has put forth a compromise version of this bill one that addresses the lingering concerns  retaining the core principles of this important program this bill will protect existing overage praise it to children and ensure that the lowest income children who are currently eligible but not rolled will gain coverage an additional four million children on top of the six million already covered it is the right thing to do it is the morals and compassion things to think to do and i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule and the accompanying legislation thank you very much and i similar remarks that object the speaker were here once again on an issue that should have been solved like in march of this past year or this year an emergency meeting of the rules committee was no noticed at seven thirty last evening to be commence at eight thirty that meeting lasted till midnight dr michael burgess a member of the energy and commerce committee attended with me to represent the energy  commerce committee in the negotiations before the rules committee he offered an amendment to this bill and was told it was not in order because he didn't get it in time didn't get it in time for an emergency this notice that seven thirty that starts at eight thirty that last till midnight dr burgess shows up with his amendment and is told i'm sorry we can't have your minute order because it wasn't in time and we knew even though there was going to be a meeting until seven thirty once again we have a close rule which means there are no amendments made in order once again we have a bill that was not seen at least by those of us on the minority sad until approximately seven to seven fifteen last evening once again we have a bill where there really been no bipartisan negotiations there have been some consultations with certain members of the minority party i have to admit that i don't know what the distance is from here to there but i'm going to guess it's about twelve thirty let's see it's eighteen p now if i really wanted to negotiate i would be a mom and i was in the majority i would say let's get together and talk rich out to my left and i would reach out to my right each of us come about nine feet we could negotiate but here's how the democrats do it they had me and said we wanted to negotiate but if they did they head out the door they're going around the world to me halfway when they could just do it nine feet apart the rule down and then let's get together and and really negotiate now i want to give this water some credit because she's a she was born in texas her instincts are right we did get a motion to recommit today for the first time we get to the motion to recommit we are going to have an opportunity to put forward a proposal that is positive for s chip that has been put together by the by the republicans and i i will tell my friends on the majority side it's not going to be a gimmick and i think it will say forthwith which means if we adopt we vote on it so i i look forward to the debate and i look forward to the motion to recommit if we really want to bill the president was signed i would say vote for the motion to recommit but right now vote against the rule let me reserve bank misspeak or get if i could ask of how much sounds remain on both sides gentleman from texas a sixty minutes remaining gentleman from new york as twenty and one half minutes remain mr speaker  this time i would like to yield four minutes to the gentlewoman from florida the gentlewoman ms brown white gentleman from florida is recognized for four minutes i think a gentleman mr speaker i think we need to sometimes look back and see how we got to where we are on march thirteenth one hundred ninety six i was in the florida senate i pulled up an old newspaper article that talked about the million dollar team of tobacco lobbyist figured they had their votes yesterday to override the governor of florida then senator johnny bear weight of rural hernando county stood to address the chamber her vote was crucial to the tobacco companies who want it to scuttle florida's tough anti tobacco law they thought they had her but they didn't know that in the last twenty six years she lost her mother father and sister all smokers to cancer i stood up and said and it's quoted in here i can't sit here any longer and play the tobacco game brown white said in a hushed emotional voice i was awake all night last night laboring over this minutes later pro tobacco forces withdrew their motion ladies and gentlemen the reason i am bringing this up is this is where the money came from for the original s chip bill it was because of overturning that vote and other states then followed to go after the dbcle companies for funds for third party reimbursement that's where the money came from for the s chip program i was proud of that vote i was very very proud of that vote i think the jackal companies for a long time lied to the american public so after that that was in one thousand nine hundred six after that one nine hundred ninety seven congress created the s chip bill great use of the tobacco litigation third party reimbursement money great great use for it in florida we created our own program from it but what we have here today is kind of what a farmer in my district once told me he said you can take a horse manure and roll it in powdered sugar and it doesn't make it a donut that ladies and gentlemen i think is kind of what we have here today it's a magnet for illegal aliens we have income disregards in here that will encourage states to disregard anything at all there are no guidelines they can disregard any form of income child support child care costs anything that they want to get to that three hundred percent of poverty level this is not about supporting the president in the overall lord only knows this president knows he cannot rely on my vote because i have stood in this chamber and voted to override his veto of the stem cell bill i disagreed with him on many many issues madam speaker is absolutely right this is about the children like her a mother and a grandmother wasn't it interesting that she couldn't use the word illegal it was undocumented whether it's whether she prefers to call them undocumented or illegal this is a magnet which will draw even more people illegally i don't have a problem using that word illegally into our country if children really are what my friends on the other side of the aisle care about that why did they hold up this vote for two weeks now kids on november the eleventh unless we can really really compromise they will be without health care i think that is cruel i think we need to get serious i told majority leader hoyer this morning that this bill is just so outrageous i almost wish i could turn back the clock in change my vote i never thought i would say that i absolutely mr speaker never thought i would say that of the s chip bill that we will again today be passing with bipartisan support this is a bill which is not intend to debate a handout or not this is not a form of welfare this is legislation that will provide assistance to working families specifically ten million children of working families who have had a very difficult time in today's economy a difficult time with high gas prices high prices of natural gas electricity struggling to make ends meet in ohio we lead the nation in foreclosures or are near the top or near the top in bankruptcy a in ohio's eighteenth district there is an air of desperation given the loss of manufacturing jobs the working families of this country need help and this is a chance to give it to them to call this a magnet for illegal immigration to classify this legislation as washington d c based health care is a gross misstatement of the facts and nothing more than a red herring the truth is this legislation will enhance the lives the quality of lives of ten million young americans we have an obligation as a government to do that i thank those republicans with the courage to vote to override the almost certain looming dark cloud of a presidential veto and urge those with the foresight and courage to do so again as we proceed on this important legislation  would remind my wonderful friends on the other side that if they are serious about this bill maybe they would start by trying to negotiate with the administration or by reaching across just nine feet as the gentleman from texas said mr barton why not try some maze in which you i can't tell you how disappointed i am my colleagues across the aisle many of us reached out and said we'd like to help craft the language that solves the problems that we all agree were problems even the speaker of the house acknowledged that illegals and that other bill was a problem that adults on the bill was a problem that people collecting over three hundred percent in some cases eighty three thousand or up to one hundred thousand dollars that was a problem the fact that we're taking millions of children and forcing them off of their private insurance and onto a government program was a problem all was acknowledged but not one constructive meeting happened where we actually sat down and said we all agree that those are problems you agree and we agree let's work out the language so that we can get a bill that takes care of poor children that's what we believe but madam speaker i would encourage you to read the bill matter fact she was proud to say that they kept it at three hundred percent in the bill we we got the bill last night we're still finding some some real gems in here the nile of payments for expenditures for children health care scare assistance for children who's affected family incomes extends three hundred percent of the poverty line basically they said we kept it say and then you read down a little bit on the rule of construction nothing in these amendments made by this section shall be construed as changing any income eligibility level for children under th section didn't change anything but in fact made it worse actually made it worse so you know that same eighty three thousand dollars family that we all agreed and the speaker stood right on this floor and said is a problem is still a problem in this bill i encourage all of you to read the bill the rhetoric is great who is against poor kids whole body but if you want to do something that has meaning if you want to say that everybody's vote counts that everybody should participate in this process and you want to stand for ads and not behind them then we need to reject this rule and come back and write a bill that doesn't allow illegals to have a welfare benefits that doesn't take these two million kids and throw them off their private health care that doesn't have families making eighty three thousand dollars subsidized by hardworking middle class families we can do it if you just try you didn't even try the only people that are welcome now on that side of the aisles leadership offices or pollsters focus groups people who are running t v ads last night we had members getting calls on the bill that we didn't see advocating for the bill hoops to say that this is and i have been an honest and fair and open is a disgrace to this institution and it is a great institution there's a lot of people over there i have just so much respect for and so many of them were trying to reach out and do this but they were completely cut off from anything that resembled a reasonable miss bill and vishal thirty seconds on the wreck and i for an additional thirty seconds i just want to cover quickly mr speaker the things that the speaker said again no illegals cvo says that in fact is not true and you confirmed in a meeting earlier with your leadership that no proof of citizenship is needed in this bill reason enough adults cvo you said we took care of the adults issue cvo scores of ten percent of the dolts will be ten percent of all the participants by two thousand and twelve will be adults nothing over three hundred percent you heard the language in there that actually obliterates that we don't take poor care of these working class families off of their private health care insurance c b says two million will lose it if you honestly believe by your words in this well that these were problems before that you tried to fix we need to reject this bill start talking cooperating and negotiating and we're going to have a bill that truly me and i ask my colleagues to please rise with us today on behalf of the many many children ten million children that will benefit from the reauthorization and on this rule so that we can hear the discussion and debate on the children's health insurance program reauthorization act of two thousand and seven we can't afford not to help those ten million children these families here will be the ones that benefit and future generations american citizens will benefit the s chip reauthorization act will help reduce what we call health care disparities that currently exist in our communities and in this country in all the programs such as s chip and medicaid have decreased the number of uninsured children over the last few years there still has been a lack of funding and outreach efforts that have left millions of elbel eligible children just like these without any form of health care coverage in fact seventy percent of latino children are eligible for health care coverage through public programs but remain uninsured this bill that we're going to  debate will reduce the number of uninsured children of color by supporting community health care workers who are better known to give advice to many in our community these are people that they can trust these are people that can help inform them on how to go through the process of receiving this type of aid and assistance through the s chip program while we're doing that we're going to reach millions of people who have otherwise not been enrolled in the program particularly those communities that speak other languages not just bilingual but also people from different ethnic backgrounds like armenians russians pacific islander and yes of course latinos the compromise legislation as i see it before us today is a step in the right direction and we have an opportunity and a moral obligation to do what is right for our children and our families these are the most vulnerable communities in the united states  children of all ages and of all communities of color are counting on us to do the right thing i urge my colleagues to vote in support of this rule for the sake of the ten million children and their families that will benefit bill is not about politics it's a bot hardworking families the poorest among us it's about ten million children who will benefit ten million children that we have to put a face on our children as christians as humanitarians we must think of the individuals who need help children like christopher and felicity for thema from san bernardino county who are hospitalized because they needed sick care their families were financially strapped as this s chip is the only reason they were able to pull through for a month now s chip has been under attack under the news enough is enough our children must come first our children must come first we have worked hard on a bipartisan to include provisions by the other side we've included language that minimises the substitute of employer sponsored coverage s chip and phase out childless adults after one year and even clarified the chip is only for u s citizen only for u s citizens they're trying to use scare tactics to saying that on documented children will be able to receive it it's only for u s citizens this bill is not perfect we have done our part to work out the differences let's get our priorities straight we spent a lot more money on the war a war that we should have never been on now we're talking about our children right here in the united states who need help it is our responsibility our children deserve it we need it we must do better i yield back my balance time and i asked my colle million figure cannot be substantiated as matter of fact the last bill had seven some million this new bill seven point four so for the members that want to talk about ten million that's not truthful that's just not cvo says it will serve seven point four million people about ten percent will be adults and to manage again children will go from private insurance into government run washington d c based health care misspeaks at this time a debt like deal to manage to distinguished gentleman from florida dr weldon the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes i thank the gentleman for yielding as a physician who practiced medicine for many years prior to coming to the house i dealt with the issue of the uninsured on a daily basis and did eat ice to see it regularly up close and personal and certainly i think it's a noble endeavor for this body to try to address this issue but i would have to say i think it's really shameful and disgraceful the way the majority has proceeded in this whole process the first time they brought this bill forward they gave it to us at the eleventh hour with no opportunity to amendment amend it they did it the second time they did it the third time now never as i understand it sitting down and seriously trying to discuss this issue with the president the president needs to sign it and people keep come to the floor and say we need to do this for the children what about the children who have to pay for this i mean let's talk about all of the children the way this bill is crafted the nonpartisan see below has estimated it will migrate two million kids in middle class families who currently have insurance onto the government payroll and jeepers we can't afford social security we're told that that's going to be insolvent we can't afford medicare we got under the current medicare formula doctors in this country are supposed to get a ten percent cut in reimbursement and now we're going to expand this program and the other thing i just want to point out we're really creating a new entitlement and one of the reasons i came here was this body for year after year was creating entitlements that it didn't have the ability to pay for and all i can say is here we go again we're expanding this program we're making it like an entitlement and we're saying over and over again we're doing it for the children what about the tens of millions of children the hundreds of millions who are going to have to clean up this mess i am against this rule i without objection i thank the distinguished chairwoman and i thank her for leadership along with chairman dangle and chairman wrangle you know as i listen on the floor it's so curious to hear us quarreling over helping children  falling down on an correct facts details while al country is facing tragedy our friends in california are suffering because of a natural disaster and here we are on the floor trying to help out children many of them who live in a suffering state because they have no health insurance today i will vote in a bipartisan manner with my colleagues to support this bill and i will again hope the president will sign it but i will join my bipartisan colleagues seventy two percent of the american public will support it two thirds of the senate the majority of the house we will stand for the children and in particular as i come from the state of texas this is a bill that we need this bill will provide and is capped at three hundred percent of poverty this bill is standard law we will cover legal immigrants and the law already indicates that those who are undocumented will not be covered in my own particular community of harris county we started in september of zero six being able to do fifty six thousand this is a county of four million people and now in the metroplex we're up to sixty two thousand do you think that is enough absolutely not and our own state the center for public policy priorities associate director says texas will need an additional federal funds in coming years if the state wants to cover three hundred thousand children eligible were state that's twenty million plus but not enrolled in the program today three hundred thousand a mere three hundred thousand state is twenty million plus but we have three hundred thousand children that can't get health insurance we need this bill as is recognized an additional twenty seconds i think the distinguished chairwoman our state representative that said this veto represented coleman handcuffs texas ability to continue to reduce the number of uninsured children and our state you can bet your bottom dollar i'm going to stand with the majority of this congress in a bipartisan way not quarreling over serving out children vote for the s chip bill this is the best way to save out children here in america i yield back the gentleman's time has expired gentlemen from texas  speak i rise in strong support of children's health insurance program but not this program and not this rule misspeak i have spent twenty six years of my life as an o b g y n physician delivering over five thousand babies i have a number of reasons to be an author and opposition to this bill in this rule but not the least of which is the way the democratic majority pays for this how they raise the seventy one billion dollars that they're required to and they're paid pay for pay go rules in mr speaker that is this cigarette tax of sixty one cents a pack if you crunch those numbers to right seventy hundred percent of federal poverty level will not be uncovered it makes really no sense and to pay for it they would have to have twenty two million additional men women and yes maybe even some of those children i delivered take up the smoking habit so what can have since does that make here we're trying to provide health insurance but children but we can only do it if we can encourage twenty two million of their grandparents parents and indeed yes some of these very children i delivered to take up the smoking habit it's like the pad pipe or maybe in a ms pelosi walkin along heading for a cliff smoke and cigarettes and all these adults right behind him smoking cigarettes a hand them these little children and they're headed for that cliff mr speaker this is a terrible bill i am i am totally opposed to it i'm not opposed to expanding the program to cover the uninsured that are eligible  even increasing a bit as the president has said he's willing to increase maybe ten billion dollars of this program but i am opposed to this bill it's wrong let's vote against the rules of the time i will fire back gentleman from new york the speak the speaker i rise in support of this bill and arise in support of it is because this is the sole reason i ran for congress i owe this congress i owe this nation for what it did for me a lot of people think because i spent thirty one years in the military i got in because of iraq i did not it was this bill in my last year in the military my four year old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in my soul daughter she was given three to nine months to live and my untitled man from the federal government was that she was given an opportunity to be here today but during that period of time there was a young boy  lance two and a half years old that was she began her chemotherapy my daughter her roommate and that first day he was there we listened as the parents of that child sat with social workers for six hours who came and went to see if that young boy would be given the same opportunity the same entitlement as an american citizen that my daughter had it's for lance that i got in this race iou because my daughter's here today because of the medicine that you voted for as a military member i would like to see every young child in america have that one opportunity my daughter did is they continue to be and have the option to be a productive healthy child and contribute to this nation so thanks feel opportunity to speak today and thank you both sides for giving me the chance for my daughter and hopefully lance in the future to be all the can be appreciated you know many of us about this time gentleman from texas we're certain our time time i have one one remaining speaker jumps to thank you mr speaker at this time i'd like field one minute to the gentleman from florida gentlemen mr keillor gentleman from florida second i for one minute i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in opposition to this rule and this bill mr speaker i believe that s chip should ensure that poor kids are covered first before providing massive tax increases and coverage for adults and illegal immigrants the democrats s chip bill before us today has a five thousand nine hundred percent tax increase it provides coverage to five hundred thousand adults and it cost federal taxpayers three point seven billion dollars because of illegal immigration let me be specific with respect to the five thousand nine hundred percent tax increase it takes the tax on cigars from a nickel to three dollars with respect to the adults five hundred thousand adults whose children are an ass chip will still be covered with respect to illegal immigration the three point seven billion dollars was provided by s since i'm against that let me tell you what i'm for i'm for h r thirty eight eighty eight which provides that coverage to kids first without having tax increases or coverage for adults and illegal immigrants that's what we need and i urge my colleagues to sport that legislation this time i'd like yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia dr price jones and george's reckon i for one minute without objection i'm a speaker i thank my friend for yielding as a physician for over twenty five years we've got a diagnosis for what's going on here today it's called a crying shame crying shame here from our friends on the other side of the aisle that there are multiple improvements that are made in this bill well they didn't improve the end portion of the bill that said we ought to take care of poor kids first what they did was weaken the requirements for making certain that you were providing benefits to legal residents in both s chip and in medicaid and they did all that with a massive tax increase doesn't sound like improvements to me mr speaker but there is an alternative it's h r thirty eight eighty eight it provides insurance for the same number of kids that this bill does it does so in a way that doesn't move kids from personal private insurance to government run bureaucratic health care and it does all of that without a tax increase all of it without a tax increase so why proceed today because as the majority party knows about all politics all the time so the diagnosis mr speaker a insurance reauthorization act this bill will ensure that ten million of america's children will finally get the health care they deserve preventive health care not spens of emergency room health care or poor choices recently my son gus celebrated his first birthday his first birthday my whole family joined in celebrating this occasion shortly after i returned to washington my wife noticed a gust wasn't feeling well he was fussing and not sleeping she was able to take him to the family doctor who diagnosed a double ear infection prescribe antibiotics and gus is a healthy one year old back on the mound the thought that any child would suffer through something so preventable in this richest nation the world has ever seen and a parent would have to make that decision is unacceptable budgets are far more than fiscal documents they are a moral document that reflects the values of this nation every member of this house of representatives speaking against this bill receives taxpayer funded health care and their children don't have to make these choices that ten million do i ask that my colleagues join me in doing the right thing  overwhelming bipartisan majority and i at this time i would be close if the gentleman does not have any additional speakers and joan woman has indicated that so thank you so much and i appreciate the gentlewoman the chairman of the rules committee mr speaker i will be asking members to oppose the previous question so that i may i'm in the rule to have speaker pelosi in consultation that's called bipartisanship with republican leader boehner immediately appoint conferees to h r two six four two the military construction and veteran affairs appropriations bill for two thousand and eight the american legion and the v f w already have along with multiple requests from republican members including this member of the house both speaker pelosi and democrat senate majority leader reid to end their p r campaign and begin conference work on the veterans appropriations bill unfortunately it appears as though all these commonsense requests have fallen on deaf ears and our nation's veterans are being forced to pay the price for continued democrat partisanship and lack of leadership on this issue i ask all of my colleagues to support this motion to defeat the previous question so that we can put the partisanship aside and move this very important legislation forward i ask unanimous consent to have the text of the amendment and extraneous material appear in the record just prior to the vote on the previous question that objection now you'll back the balance of my time don't texas give back the balance of this time gentleman from new york mr speaker i rise to defend this bill and the children of america it has been painful for me to hear the mischaracterizations again of this mail in the first place adults will have one more year on this veil and that really mine and all everybody listening that the only reason a daughter on the average cause the administration the bush administration gave states the right to do it they will all be gone within a year nobody will be moved off of private insurance onto the federal insurance the bill even allow states to give money to private insurance companies to keep the children on those roles i have never heard so much obfuscation even praising tobacco from medical people to try to stop taking care of america's children a healthy group of children growing up in this country well absolutely every new every doctor every one of us as a benefits that we will get from it it is a tragedy in me i you something that is not of the should be able to even powerade the thought that there are children in this country that don't have the vaccinations that don't have the health care they need that they are prevented from getting doctors appointments because they have no way to save him a he's an obligation if ever there was one we have an opportunity to do it it is paid for we are not asking it to increase the debt or anything  is a bill that deserves the vote of every member of the congress and the president's signature if ever there was one and i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question the question is on ordering the previous question on  house resolution seven seventy four if ordered an approval of the journal number the record or vote by electronic device the fifteen minute house is wrapped up over an hour of debate on the underlying bill h r thirty nine sixty three the children's health insurance bill a previous question vote here a chance last chance to change the rule on the floor and pete sessions of texas talking about the military construction veterans affairs spending bill which has been brought up several times before and motions to recommit earlier today the actual debate on this bill was delayed by several of procedural votes and also by debate on the floor in congress now reported that house republicans are trying to delay the vote until monday using a variety of procedural moves including several motions to adjourn republicans including jeb hensarling of texas the chairman of the conservative republican study committee are protesting what they say is a democratic effort to quote manipulate the vote and quote by pushing through the bill without giving the g o p the time to review it not only did republicans not receive the nearly three hundred page long bill until this morning but also many members are out of town because of the wildfires in california the article continues that minority whip roy blunt chimed in adding that the democrats decision to move the bill today is quote abuse of the legislative process and quote offensive to members the new d b need to be back in california representative blunt said democrats did not give republicans a sufficient chance to review the bill because quote they are ashamed of it that's from roy blunt reporting from congress now well the first in a series of a couple of votes here previous question vote fifteen minutes we had a chance earlier today to talk with a capitol hill reporter on why we're seeing children's health insurance back on the house floor today