Chairman. I rise today in strong support of the Public Health Service Infant Mortality Amendments Act. This legislation. which increases the authorization levels for community and migrant health centers. is designed to help reduce our outrageously high infant mortality rate by targeting the health improvement of highrisk pregnant women and children. Community and migrant health centers provide basic health services in some of our countrys neediest communities. Of the families served by the health centers: 60 percent have incomes below the poverty level. 48 percent lack health insurance of any kind. 44 percent live in isolated rural areas. and 60 percent are highrisk women and children. There is clearly a valuable role that these centers can play in improving access to care among the medically underserved.