House Passes Revised Children's Health Bill That Still Faces Veto Threat (S-CHIP Again)

Fox News ^ | October 25, 2007

[khnyny]

WASHINGTON — The House passed a revised children's health proposal Thursday, but not by the two-thirds margin that supporters will need if President Bush vetoes the measure as promised.

The 265-142 vote was a victory for Bush and his allies, who urged House Republicans to reject Democrats' claims that changes to the legislation had met their chief concerns. If the same vote occurs on a veto override attempt, Bush will prevail, as he did earlier this month when he vetoed a similar bill.

Liberal groups continue to run attack ads against Republicans siding with Bush on the issue, which many Democrats consider a winner for their party.

Democratic leaders said changes to the bill, which would add $35 billion to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, had addressed critics' concerns about participation by adults, illegal immigrants and families able to afford health insurance. But GOP leaders called the changes insignificant and politically motivated.

The decade-old health program is aimed at families that do not qualify for Medicaid but are too poor to afford medical insurance. As with the bill Bush vetoed, the revised measure would add would $35 billion over five years, financed by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes.

[khnyny]

Also from the article:

[However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the legislation "has the support of the American people."]

Apparently, Pelosi "knows" what the majority of Americans want. Too bad she wouldn't postpone this vote till the Congressmen who accompanied Bush to view the damage from the California wildfires returned.

[khnyny]

See Michelle Malkin’s updates on this here:

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/24/playing-fire-with-s-chip/

[oneamericanvoice]

A win is a win. And anytime a liberal screams a conservative angel gets their wings!

[EGPWS]

Democratic leaders said changes to the bill, which would add $35 billion to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, had addressed critics' concerns about participation by adults, illegal immigrants and families able to afford health insurance.

And they will be relentless until a normal two parent family is irrelevant and ALL are dependent upon government.

[EGPWS]

[However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the legislation "has the support of the American people."]

Pelosi should know, after all since becoming Speaker of the House, Congress has been raised to the level of an 11% approval rating.....

[taxesareforever]

Let’s see that veto pen in BOLD writing and addressed to Nancy Pelosi. Maybe it can get on ebay and the veterans would get another cool million dollars plus.

[fwdude]

Pelosi should know, after all since becoming Speaker of the House, Congress has been raised to the level of an 11% approval rating.....

It's that high, huh?

[EGPWS]

It's that high, huh?

Well, the pollsters may be stretching it a bit. ; )

[Diogenesis]

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Is there a list of Congress folks that voted Yes on this garbage?

[fwdude]

Talk about using children for political leverage - the DemocRats have this down pat. In truth, they couldn’t care less about “the children”, but whatever makes Republicans look bad is fair play.

[digger48]

35 billion over five years, financed by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes.

If the media wasn't working with the Rats to hide this little part of the equation, they couldn't muster 150 votes.

I don't smoke anymore, but most of those who do, don't realize that THIS is the reason for a possible increase.

Mitch just hit Hoosiers with .44 cents/pack more for the State younglings, most of the uninformed voters will just assume it is the Gov or the Pres doing it to them.

[khnyny]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/1009/

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/house/1/votes/1009/

[khnyny]

The official vote probably won’t show till tomorrow on the senate site as the vote happened after 5:00p.

[bill1952]

> financed by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes

Well, that won’t work and they all know it, so what is the real funding plan?

[khnyny]

> financed by a 61-cent increase in the federal excise tax on a pack of cigarettes

Well, that won’t work and they all know it, so what is the real funding plan?

Of course it won't work. Just more game playing by the Dems. As far as how they truly intend to finance it, your guess is as good as mine.

[khnyny]

Pelosi and Reid - the dynamic duo, lol.

I’m just waiting for the cat fight to occur between Pelosi and Hillary. They both pride themselves on their “toughness”, as they call it.

[LibLieSlayer]

“so what is the real funding plan?”

charlie rangel’s 1.5 TRILLION DOLLAR TAX INCREASE PROPOSAL!

LLS

[goldstategop]

The bill will be vetoed again. The Democrats don't care about poor children. They care about scoring political points. Sink that SCHIP again!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[EGPWS]

I’m just waiting for the cat fight to occur between Pelosi and Hillary.

Both see themselves as the "progressive" woman of liberal change and the clash of the midget titans is inevitable unless one of them winds up sleeping at ease in a park somewhere. ; )