Senate Proceeding on Jan 29th, 2009 :: 4:57:50 to 5:05:00
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Frank Lautenberg: doing all the things they -- that they need to do under our law to get -- to citizenship. they go to public schools in america. legal immigrants go to school. those are public pgrams. so it just seems to me if we have public programs, you know, like schools and similar programs like that, that

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Speech By: Frank Lautenberg

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Frank Lautenberg: certainly the public program for children's health insurance should be ful them as well. but again, just a basic reminder reminder, the effect of the grassley amendment is to deny health insurance to about three-quarters of a million people compared with t underlying bill. i don't think we want to deny

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Frank Lautenberg: the working kids of the working poor who really do need headlight insurance, especially during these economic times. so i would ask that senator support that amendment. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from new jersey is recognized.

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Frank Lautenberg: . lautenberg: thank you, mr. president. and i note the - take a minute to salute the senator from montana on the finance committee. he's done a masterful job trying to k

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Frank Lautenberg: get ourselves back in a stabilized economy. and i congratulate him for the work done and ask him to continue to exert the effort and the leadership that he has thus far mr. president, i come to the floor to protect the well-being

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Frank Lautenberg: of more than new jersey. and a particular focus as we seek to stimulate an economic revival is to preserve and protect the insurance program, which has helped millions of kids get to a doctor keep them well, to get them

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Frank Lautenberg: mi need. but instead of continuing that safety net or strengthening it, the senator from kentucky is targeting 3,000 children in my stat ridge. and it's an assault on equity in incomes vary and certainly costs

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Frank Lautenberg: of living differ, and federal assistance to states reflect their subsistence needs. mr. president, this amendment will deprive children of essential health care. and these children are from working families who are

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Frank Lautenberg: producing income, modest as it may be, not enough to take care of all of their needs, but, nevertheless, essential in their family and i want to note that while our country, our economy is going deeper and deeper into a

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Frank Lautenberg: recession, there's an attack on children's well-being by a senator who stated 2005 -- whose state in 2005 was the ninth largest recipient of federal assistance. his state, kentucky, receives 90 cents more for every dollar that they pay to the federal government than new jersey does.

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Frank Lautenberg: with the way talking, you might think that too many children in new jersey are receiving health insurance. and while this assault is taking place, it's important to plead our case in the senate. right now the number of

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Frank Lautenberg: in new jersey witho coverage is far above national average. and, in fact, more than a quarter of a million kids in my state do not have health insurance. and now the bunning amendment would put more children in my state at risk of losing their health care

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Frank Lautenberg: now, one of t problems with this amendment is that it intimates that costs among states are identical in each case. the federal poverty level cannot be aplierksd for i applied, for instance, equally

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Frank Lautenberg: to energy negligen new jersey and kentucky. in new jersey, we have the twin problems of very high costs of living, very high health insurance costs. the cost of living in the state of new jerseys 30% higher than the national average. in fact, only two other states have a higher cost of living than new jersey.

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Frank Lautenberg: and nearly all of the families who rely on this program to get medical care for their children still monthly premiums, and other out-of-pocket expenses. this

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Frank Lautenberg: it's intended to disrupt the process that the entire country desperately wants to see accomplished and that is protecting children's health. and given new jersey's contribution when it comes to fill find it particularly offensive we know that other states have

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Frank Lautenberg: different needs than we do and we join in supporting these needs. if there's a natural disaster in a particular state, for example, the other 49 chip in. and that's what our republic demands. time and time again, new jersey's taxpayers are asked to shoulder the burden to help

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Frank Lautenberg: are in need. and for every dollar tt new jersey gives to the federal government, we only receive 61 cents back. as a matter of fact, we're last in the list of states. compare that for every dollar that kentucky

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Frank Lautenberg: pays to the treasury, it gets back .51. now, whether service fund for phone service, essential air service and aviation, or other programs, new jersey gives far more than it

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Frank Lautenberg: gets back an contrary to everything that we're trying to accomplish on the floor this week. mr. president, more than 3,000 children in new jersey are