Graeme Frost, 12, will deliver the Democratic response to President Bush’s radio address today

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/washington/29health.html?ref=policy



Graeme Frost, 12, will deliver the Democratic response to President Bush’s radio address today. After an accident, Graeme received care through the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Democrats Build Plan to Override Health Bill Veto
By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: September 29, 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — Democrats and their allies mapped out a strategy on Friday that they hoped would enable them to override President Bush’s expected veto of a bipartisan bill providing health insurance for 10 million children, most of them in low-income families.

Democratic leaders said they would highlight the contrast between the president’s request for large sums of money for the Iraq war and his opposition to smaller sums for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as Schip.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said, “It’s ironic that in the very same week that the president says he’s going to veto the bill because we can’t afford it, he is asking, what, for $45 billion more over and above his initial request for the war in Iraq, money that we know is being spent without accountability, without a plan for how we can leave Iraq.”

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said, “This is all a matter of priorities: the cost of Iraq, $333 million a day; the cost of Schip, $19 million a day.”