Speech #1100111905

So we have an elimination action in this motion to recommit that would eliminate that loophole. We also believe that before you go above 200 percent of poverty. you should cover the children below 200 percent of poverty. so we have a requirement in the motion to recommit that States cannot go above 200 percent of poverty until they have covered at least 90 percent of the eligible SCHIP and Medicare children below 200 percent of the poverty line. We take statements like Chairman RANGEL of the Ways and Means Committee and Chairman DINGELL of the Energy and Commerce Committee at face value when they say they dont want illegal aliens to be covered in the bill. We put a requirement in the motion to recommit that applies the same citizenship documentation requirements for SCHIP as we have for Medicaid in the Deficit Reduction Act and applies those to the 16 States that it does not currently apply to. We also take the majority at their word when they say that they really want SCHIP to be for children.