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Congressman John T. Salazar -- Defending Rural Values -- Third District of Colorado
  For immediate release: October 18, 2007  
 
Contact: (202) 225-4761
Eric Wortman, Communications Director
Rick Palacio, Deputy Communications Director
 
 

Rep. Salazar reacts to SCHIP

 
 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Today, Congress attempted to override the President’s veto of the State Children’s Healthcare Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation to provide health insurance to 10 million American children from families struggling to make ends meet.  Sadly some members of Congress, including some in the Colorado delegation, aligned themselves with President Bush and voted to sustain his veto.”

“When the president vetoed this legislation his administration claimed the expansion would cause families to opt out of private health insurance and enroll in SCHIP; the truth says otherwise.  The president then said that children from families making over $80,000 per year would be eligible; the truth also says otherwise.”

“The fact remains; this veto leaves over 100,000 children in Colorado without healthcare.”

“In five years this president has spent $700 billion on this war in Iraq, but refuses to spend $35 billion over five years for our children.  It’s disgraceful.”

 

 
 

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