Statement of Senator Clinton on President's Veto of Health Insurance for Nearly Four Million Children

October 3, 2007 -- "With the stroke of a pen, President Bush has robbed nearly four million uninsured children of the chance for a healthy start in life and the health coverage they need but can't afford. These children are invisible to this president, but they aren't invisible to the American people or to the overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress – and they aren't invisible to me.

"I was proud to help create the Children's Health Insurance Program during the Clinton Administration, which today provides health insurance for six million children. In New York alone, almost 400,000 children benefit from CHIP every month. The president's veto today stopped us from insuring an additional 3.8 million children, including 72,000 more children in New York.

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"I will continue to fight to provide health insurance to all children – as I have proposed in the Senate – and to pursue quality, affordable health care for all Americans. No child should be invisible in our country or in our health care system."

Source: Senator Hillary Clinton