Pelosi Statement on Vote to Approve New Children’s Health Insurance Legislation

“Today we took another step forward in providing health insurance for 10 million children. It’s an interesting vote. Although we had a number of absences on both sides, we had a situation where on the motion to recommit, the Republicans who all day railed against the increase in taxes in the package, in their motion to recommit, had the same 61-cent tax on cigarettes.”