Chris Murphy: “Thank you very much, Mr. Meek, and my condolences go out as well to the Davis family. Mr. Meek, I am glad you started…”

“Thank you very much, Mr. Meek, and my condolences go out as well to the Davis family. Mr. Meek, I am glad you started where we left off last time, talking about children's health care, because it is still on the table. For a lot us, we still believe that it has hope. This 2-week period in which we postponed a vote on the override will give our friends on the other side of the aisle the opportunity to rethink their position on this issue, to go back to their districts and talk to the millions of families, thousands and thousands of families in each congressional district across this country who are struggling with the real peril associated with trying to get health care in this country. We are talking about 6 million kids which are going to lose health care if we don't reauthorize the national Federal Children's Health Program, the SCHIP program. We are talking about 4 million new kids that don't have health care now that could have health care. We are really talking about families that are playing by the rules, who are doing everything we ask of them, working one job, two jobs, maybe even three jobs, but can't get health care through their employers. It just makes sense for us to reach out and try to help those families. Mr. Speaker, it makes sense not only because it's the right thing to do from a moral standpoint, but we care about our fellow human beings, and we are our brother's keeper.”