Elijah Cummings: “I think all of us, all of us in this Congress accept the fact that we have to do everything in our power to make sure…”

“I think all of us, all of us in this Congress accept the fact that we have to do everything in our power to make sure children have an opportunity to grow up so that they can be the best that they can be. And when we think about something like health care, a child able to be taken care of if he has the measles or the mumps or has some kind of problem, health problem, just to know that that custodial parent is placed in a position where he or she can take that child to a health care provider and have that child taken care of is so very, very important. As the gentleman said, this bill may not reach the headlines of our papers; but I can tell my colleagues one thing, it will reach the headlines of a lot of families, a lot of custodial parents who merely want their children to be healthy. I urge my colleagues to support this very important legislation.”