Senate Proceeding on Mar 15th, 2007 :: 1:38:10 to 1:45:33
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Kay Hutchison: and it's time to pinpoint a new way forward. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senate will receive a message from the president of the united states. >> mr. president, a message

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Speech By: Kay Hutchison

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Kay Hutchison: from the president of the united states. the presiding officer: miss secretary. >> i am directed to deliver to the senate, messages in writing. the presiding officer: the message will be received

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Kay Hutchison: and appropriately referred. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: mr. president, some years ago the distinguished and late great senator from the state of minnesota, hubert h. humphrey

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Kay Hutchison: said the following when he was talking about how we should evaluate budgets in government. he said "the moral test of a government is how it treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of

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Kay Hutchison: life and those in the twilight of life." i rise today, mr. president, to speak of those in the dawn of their lives. children across america. especially the children of working families, working families, who

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Kay Hutchison: have no health insurance. unfortunately, despite good intentions and despite a good program, that i'll be speaking about this morning, there are nine million american children with no health insurance

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Kay Hutchison: at all. nine million children. mr. president, that is a blot on the american conscience. or should be, that nine million children have no health insurance at all. justice cannot abide nine million

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Kay Hutchison: children in america with no health insurance. that's the bad news. the good news is, we have a way to bring some relief to those children, to their families and to the american economy. it's called the state

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Kay Hutchison: children's health insurance program known by s chip. so when i refer to s chip by that acronym i am speaking of the state's health insurance program. here is what the program does, providing broad coverage

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Kay Hutchison: to children across america. it provides comprehensive health insurance coverage to up to six million american children. it is financed joaptsly by state governments and the federal government. today,

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Kay Hutchison: mr. president, currently that program costs the federal government just over $5 billion per year, a very small price to pay in a huge federal budget with all the return you get from that investment

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Kay Hutchison: for our children. remember, remember what this program is. it's a program that covers working families, the children of working families. those families whose income is too high to be covered

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Kay Hutchison: by medicaid and too low or budgets that are too low to have the coverage that is provided in the private market. so that's what we're talking about. we're talking about families that are squeezed

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Orrin Hatch: in between that can't afford coverage in the private market but also don't qualify for medicaid. in pennsylvania, my home state, i'm honored and proud to say that my father, governor casey, when

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Speech By: Orrin Hatch