TX REEP Lawmaker's ad touts programs she voted to cut (Child Health Ins.)

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Lawmaker's ad touts programs she voted to cut
Wong says she helped needy access health care


By JANET ELLIOTT and KRISTEN MACK
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

State Rep. Martha Wong says in her first TV ad of the season that she helped expand health care to the poor, but the two-term lawmaker has cast several votes to cut such programs.

As the ad shows scenes of children, an announcer says that Wong "helped the truly needy gain access to government health care programs like Medicaid, Medicare and the Children's Health Insurance Program."

During her first term in 2003, the Houston Republican voted for a state budget that cut almost $1 billion from health programs. She also supported a major restructuring of the popular CHIP program that included new asset tests, increases in co-payments and premiums, and a requirement that families reapply every six months instead of once a year.

CHIP enrollment has dropped from its peak of 500,000 in 2003 to 300,000.

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1. That's what passes for Texas Republiclown truth tellin'

Bush, Barton, Goehmert, Poe, Cornyn, Hutchison, Sessions, Neugebauer, Johnson, seeing a pattern? Yep, they tend to compromise their Congressional credibility. Or, if you prefer to talk plainly, they are all full of shit.