Frank Pallone: “the sad thing is the administration, this Bush administration, keeps talking about what they are going to do. But we do…”

“the sad thing is the administration, this Bush administration, keeps talking about what they are going to do. But we do not really find that they are doing it. We had Governor Thompson, now Secretary Thompson, before our Commerce Health subcommittee last week, and he was touting the fact that he is going to provide more money for community health centers. But if you look at the Bush budget, and there is one paragraph here, it actually gets aid to the uninsured. So they are talking about trying to help with these community health centers, but then they cut it. This is from the New York Times. "The Bush budget will propose deep cuts in health programs for people without health insurance. Budget documents from the Department of Health and Human Services show the programs providing health care access for the uninsured will be reduced 82 percent to 20 million from 140 million in the current fiscal year. These programs received 40 million in 2000." So I hate to use the term not being honest or not being truthful, but really, he is not being honest with the American people in terms of what he is doing on these health care issues.”