08/12/2004
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"Increasing competition for providers will help ensure that we offer the highest quality programs to our Nation's most vulnerable young children."
"My Administration strongly supports reauthorization of SCHIP."
"I told the Congress that I was willing to work with its leadership to find any additional funds necessary to put poor children first, without raising taxes."
"I am, however, deeply disappointed that the bill ends the National Reporting System."