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Yesterday, the Senate took a significant step to help tackle the health care crisis in America by sending the Children’s Health Insurance Program to the President. The Program has broad bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. We are sending a loud and clear message to the President --- that we must put our Nation’s children first and we must ensure they have access to quality health care so they can live healthy and productive lives. In Colorado, there are 180,000 children that wake up each day without health insurance. Everyday their parents worry and wonder what will happen if their child gets sick and they cannot take them to the doctor. Or what they would do if their child is diagnosed with a serious illness. There are 180,000 souls in my state that face that kind of predicament today and will continue to suffer if President Bush does not sign this bill into law. Investing in our Nation’s children is our moral and economic obligation. It would be reprehensible for President Bush to say no to the children of America. As the Lord urges us in the gospel ‘whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Today we are doing what the gospel would tell us to do—and take care of those that are the most vulnerable in our society. The Children’s Health Insurance Program does just that. It is the right and moral thing for Congress to do and I urge the President to help our Nation’s children and reconsider his veto.
Sincerely, Ken Salazar Please e-mail me with any questions or concerns you may have Senator
Ken Salazar's DC office is located at 702 Hart Senate office building,
Washington, DC 20510. He has Colorado regional offices in Denver, Colorado
Springs, Fort Collins, Ft. Morgan, Pueblo, Durango, Grand Junction and
Alamosa. For contact and mailing info, click
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Sen. Salazar Statement on House-Senate Compromise on Children's Health Insurance Program Sen. Salazar's Remarks on Bolstering CHIP Sen. Salazar Blasts President Bush's Veto Threat of CHIP Listen to Sen. Salazar Discuss the Children’s Health Insurance Program Sen. Salazar in the News Child health measure pits Dems against White HousePueblo Chieftain SCHIP boost on the line today Denver Post Vetoing kids' care: Ritter, Salazar right to fight for coverage Boulder Daily Camera Child health care funding is vital Denver Post Take Action Urge President Bush to sign the CHIP bill!
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