I would give the President credit for supporting it. but I would also give the Republican leadership in the House and the Senate credit for supporting it also at that time. The bill that is before us tonight is not the bill that passed in 1997. We have over 600.000 adults on SCHIP. a childrens health insurance program. Rhetorically. my friends on the majority side say they really dont want adults to be covered. But nothing in this bill moves those adults off of SCHIP. We dont know how many hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are covered. But most people agree that there are hundreds of thousands. if not millions. Nothing in this bill has an enforcement mechanism to move children who are not U.S. citizens off the rolls.
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