Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Murphy. As you said, we both sat on the Public Health Committee in Hartford, Connecticut, in the State legislature. You did an absolutely outstanding job for the people of the State. You were the guy that was there to implement SCHIP. We call it HUSKY in Connecticut, for obvious reasons--because we have the best men's and women's basketball teams in the country right now in the NCAA. You also did, again, a lot of other path breaking legislation during your time there. It's very exciting to see you now on the Energy and Commerce Committee to continue that work at the national level. I wanted to follow up actually on a couple of comments that our colleague from Pennsylvania brought up regarding the fact that, A, in the short time that President Obama has been in office, he followed through on a campaign promise to extend health insurance to 4 million more children in this country. As the three of us know, this was an issue that people clawed at each for 2 solid years. And then, within 2 weeks of coming into office, we were able to accomplish that historic expansion and strengthen coverage for things like dental care and mental health care, which anybody out there talking to the pediatric community knows, was a real weakness in the SCHIP program that has now been in effect for the last 10 years.”