Tim Walz: “Well, I think the two gentlemen make excellent points on this. It's about having a vision. It's about understanding…”

“Well, I think the two gentlemen make excellent points on this. It's about having a vision. It's about understanding investment. I would argue it has sunk in, Madam Speaker, to 81 percent of the country. It simply hasn't sunk in to another 25 Members of this body that will start to get that. I want to give just an example here, a couple on this. This idea that the President's going to decide again, and the claims that came up here and, of course, the chart we talked about where the President's going to cut back on numbers, we have a situation now where we have children uncovered. The President is going to decide. Now, our bill is going to get us to the number we want to try to get to. The President is going to say, no, there's not enough there to get that. Well, he calls himself the decider. So Madam Speaker, I'd like you to think about this, and I'd like Members of this body to think about this. Who gets coverage? Which one of these families gets coverage? You decide. Some aren't going to if you get the President's way. Our way makes the decision pretty easy. Cover the children. How about the Wilkerson family from St. Petersburg, Florida? "This is personal not only to us but millions of parents," said Bethany's mother, Dara, in a telephone interview. "Dara Wilkerson said Bethany had to have heart surgery in 2005, when she was 6 months old, after doctors told them she'd been born with two holes in her heart and a valve that didn't close.…”