SCHIP

WEINBERG STATEMENT ON SCHIP HEARING

DUMONT - Senator Loretta Weinberg, D-Bergen, a member of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Committee's hearing today on Congressional efforts to override President Bush's veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides federal matching funds to State efforts to provide health care coverage for the uninsured:

VITALE STATEMENT ON SCHIP HEARING

DUMONT - Senator Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex, the Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the Committee's hearing on the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and President Bush's recent veto of legislation reauthorizing federal funding for uninsured children:

DUMONT - The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee and the Assembly Human Services Committee will hold a joint hearing on Monday at 9:30 a.m. to receive testimony from invited speakers concerning the impact on New Jersey if Congress fails to override President Bush's veto to limit the expansion of SCHIP--the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

The meeting will be held at Dumont Borough Hall at 50 Washington Avenue in Dumont.

Assemblywoman Jennifer Beck, responding to President Bush's veto of a measure to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), today issued the following statement:

CONAWAY ASSAILS BUSH FOR JEOPARDIZING HEALTH OF NEW JERSEY CHILDREN

(DELRAN) - Assemblyman Herb Conaway, M.D., chairman of the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee, today accused President Bush of committing aggravated assault upon New Jersey's children whose families cannot afford to buy health insurance.

State Senator Ellen Karcher (D-Monmouth, Mercer), Vice-Chair of the Senate Health and Senior Services Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Bush’s veto of legislation expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOE VITALE ON THE PRESIDENT'S SCHIP VETO

WOODBRIDGE - Senator Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex, the Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Bush's veto today of bipartisan federal legislation which would dedicate $35 billion to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) over the next five years:

Senator will push for legislation urging the Bush administration to repeal new guidelines

VITALE POINTS TO NEW POLL REVEALING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANT SCHIP

National Poll Shows 9 in 10 Want to See Health Care Program for Uninsured Reauthorized

TRENTON - Pointing to a new national poll showing that nine in 10 Americans want to see the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) reauthorized, Senate Health Committee Chairman Joe Vitale today said the President's opposition to the program is "out of touch with the opinion of a vast majority of Americans'."

VITALE BLASTS NEW FEDERAL RULES TO UNDERCUT SCHIP

Says Administration's Rule Changes Will Hurt State's Efforts to Increase Enrollment

TRENTON - Senator Joseph F. Vitale, Chair of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee issued the following statement today regarding President Bush's newly adopted standards for expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which, the Senator says, are "a poorly veiled threat to eliminate health insurance for hundreds of thousands of our nation's children."