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Yvette Clarke: “When we look at our families and communities, they are called upon to do so much all the time. But these are very…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2007
When we look at our families and communities, they are called upon to do so much all the time. But these are very special times we are in. It calls for us to multitask. It calls for us to go above the call of duty to address real life-and-death issues. SCHIP is a life-and-death issue. It is here, it is now, it is our neighbors. It is our coworkers' children. It is the folks who attend religious services with us. It is their children. We need to call our representatives, e-mail our representatives. We need to make sure that the Speaker's office, the whip's office, the majority leader's office, we need to make sure that we make our voices heard, jam the phone lines.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Advocating for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) during a floor speech.

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