If it is personal affirmation, when you sign up for SCHIP they say, ``Are you U.S. citizen?'' And if your parent says you are, you are. That's what personal affirmation is. So I hope we could somehow pull out a miracle and defeat this bill and then do the bipartisan compromise that we almost pulled off in the last Congress.
Discussing the SCHIP program and advocating for a bipartisan compromise.
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