We cannot and should not shortchange the most vulnerable among us. and we cannot and should not relent in our efforts to ensure that our Nations lowincome children have reliable access to the health care services and treatments that they will need to be healthy and to pursue their lifes destinies. Madam Speaker. today we have yet another opportunity to reach across the political aisle and stand together to do the right thing for Americas children. As I know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle well know. the children who are currently enrolled and would be newly enrolled in CHIP are not undocumented residents. they are legal American citizens. Efforts to try to derail our intention to override the veto by inundating CHIP in an immigration debate are both unconscionable and inaccurate. And. the children who are and would be covered by CHIP also are not children from wealthy or even middleincome families who could otherwise afford health insurance. The mythical $83.000 CHIP family is just that: a myth.
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