July 30,2007

Comment on Statement of Administration Policy on the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

MEMORANDUM


To: Reporters and Editors

From: Carol Guthrie for Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

Re: Statement of Administration Policy on the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus commented today following the release of a
Statement of Administration Policy regarding S. 1893, the the Children’s Health Insurance
Program Reauthorization Act of 2007. Following the Chairman’s comment, please find two items
– a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the bill, many of which address inaccuracies in the
SAP, and Chairman Baucus’s July 17 letter to HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt upon the
Administration’s first official statement of intention to veto this vital children’s health bill.

From Chairman Baucus:

“The White House made its views clear on the Senate CHIP bill long ago, and those views
are no more factually informed or helpful to children today than they were when first
expressed. The Senate is going to move forward with legislation that will preserve health
coverage for 6.6 million children under the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and that
will reach 3.2 million more low-income, uninsured children for health coverage in the next
five years. It is my sincerest hope that the President will join, not thwart, the effort to help
kids in working families get the doctor’s visits and medicines they need through the tried
and true Children’s Health Insurance Program.”

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