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I caught this when I came online today and it got me to grin a bit.
[b]Dems: Override children’s health veto[/b]
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 51 minutes agoDemocratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana asked his colleagues on Saturday to override President Bush’s veto of legislation that would expand a popular children’s health insurance program.
“Every Republican must decide whether they will stand with the president and his veto, or stand with our children and their right to a healthy future,” Baucus said in his party’s weekly radio address.
House Democrats have scheduled for this week a vote to override the president’s veto of legislation that would increase spending for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. Bush has called for a $5 billion increase.
The effort is not expected to succeed. An override requires a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate, and the earlier House vote fell about two dozen votes short. The Senate approved the increase by a veto-proof margin.
The program provides health insurance to children in families with incomes too great for Medicaid eligibility but not enough to afford private insurance. Bush has said the bill is too costly, goes beyond the program’s original intent and shifts too much insurance burden onto the government rather than private providers.
Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said Tuesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt had called him seeking to compromise on the bill, but he refused.
“We want to prevail,” Baucus said then.
He said Saturday that the president is telling millions of parents that they don’t deserve the same basic care for their kids that Bush had for his.
Are the Democrats finally growing a spine? Maybe not, but I still hope they can override this veto.
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October 13th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
The sad part about this shit is that not only did Bush veto thuis, the extremists on the right have taken it upon themselves to attack the 12 year old boy who appeared in an ad supporting this. Here’s hoping the Dems DO have some spine, but their willingess to let monkeyboy-in-chief do whatever he wants doesn’t give me much hope.
October 14th, 2007 at 8:13 am
We have to realize that this is a dance between the Dims and the Rips. The Rips are a perfect excuse for the Dims to do nothing. If they really wanted to do SOMETHING, they could have defunded the war by not passing a revenue bill for it, and they could be fighting Bush on healthcare by holding up all legistlation.
Don’t hold your breath. They’re full of shit.
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