Tom Price: “Regrettably, Madam Speaker, the New Year didn't bring any new ideas or new strategy on the part of our majority here.…”

“Regrettably, Madam Speaker, the New Year didn't bring any new ideas or new strategy on the part of our majority here. Less than 1 week into this new session, it remains all politics all the time. And you don't have to believe me. Just listen to their chairman, who was quoted in the New York Times on September 17 of last year: ``If the President vetoes this bill, it's a political victory for us.'' So all politics all the time. As has been stated by others, we solved this issue for the time being, the next 18 months, in a bipartisan manner last year, 411-3. And don't believe me if you don't want to. Believe the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, no great friend of our side of the aisle, which says, ``Thanks to the infusion of Federal dollars, Georgia's embattled health insurance program for working class children is safe for another year and even has room to grow if the economy declines. The program called PeachCare, which was disrupted and debated last year by State officials, Congress, and the President, will have enough funding to cover the 254,820 children now enrolled and to grow by up to 40,000 children. `I'm just relieved,' said the State Health Department Commissioner Dr. Rhonda Medows. `This will ensure these children are taken care of.' ``Relief echoed Monday through the Georgia health care advocacy community, which fought throughout the last year to save the program known as SCHIP.”