Pete Sessions: “I had the pleasure a little over a year ago to travel to five different rural health clinics in Alabama, many of these…”

“I had the pleasure a little over a year ago to travel to five different rural health clinics in Alabama, many of these in areas where minority citizens live, and was very pleased to have the chief Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Claude Allen, to do that, an African-American himself, the chief deputy to Tommy Thompson. My understanding is the administration does support rural health clinics; in fact, it has plans to expand them. Properly done, it would be the right way to go. I will be looking at the Senator's amendment and reviewing that as we go forward. I think the general policy and the general direction of this administration will be to expand those clinics rather than to reduce them.”