Bart Stupak

Other northern Michigan communities look to Caspian as an inspiration and a model for community pride and leadership.

Rosalie personifies the best of what local leadership can be and she has demonstrated the best that programs like Rural Development can be in terms of helping small communities maintain a quality of life and an ability to maintain and even…

It has been in the area of pursuing grants for this kind of community maintenance and redevelopment that Rosalie King has excelled.

In my home State of Michigan, reports have been mixed about the effectiveness of the program. All Members want to ensure that the program we instituted is carried out in an appropriate manner.

Today I am introducing the CHIP Data and Evaluation Improvement Act of 1999. This legislation would ensure comparable data and an adequate evaluation of children's health coverage under the new Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…

We need this information, not only to determine whether the States are properly instituting their CHIP programs, but to ensure that we continue our commitment to ensure that no children in this country are left without health care coverage.

The most fundamental question we, as policy makers, will be asking is whether the number of uninsured children is going down.

This bill would ensure that standardized CHIP data is provided.

Centralized and complete information is the key to sound policy and programs.

In this era of devolution of social programs, the Federal Government has an increasingly critical responsibility to ensure adequate and comparable national data.

We await reports on the effectiveness of their efforts to cover the Nation's uninsured children and I believe this bill will go along way in developing information on its effectiveness.

This legislation would ensure comparable data and an adequate evaluation of children's health coverage under the new Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid.