Anna Eshoo: “Mr. Speaker, today is one of the most exciting days since I've come to the Congress, having been elected first in 1992.…”

“Mr. Speaker, today is one of the most exciting days since I've come to the Congress, having been elected first in 1992. I think today is a day of history, a day of history for the children of our country, because the fact is that there are nearly 9 million American children without guaranteed access to health care in our Nation today. I think that is a national shame. Today, we correct that. We build on a successful bipartisan program of Republican and Democratic Governors, of leaders in the Congress past, of a program that has worked. It has not been riddled by fraud, and what we do today very simply is add 5 million American children in the rolls of health care. It is private insurance for almost all of the States. We also strengthen Medicare. I would suggest that my friends on this side of the aisle are on the wrong side of history.”