Bush and the Roadblock Republicans hate kids; uphold SCHIP veto

[ProSense]

House fails to reverse child health veto

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - House Democrats failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children.

The bill had bipartisan support but the 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law despite Bush's objections. The bill had passed the Senate with a bigger than two-thirds majority.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program now subsidizes health care insurance coverage for about 6 million children at a cost of about $5 billion a year. The vetoed bill would have added 4 million more children, most of them from low-income families, to the program at an added cost of $7 billion annually.

To pay for the increase, the bill would have raised the federal tax on cigarettes from 39 cents to $1.00 a pack.

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From his speech this morning, Bush lied about the SCHIP bill

[ProSense]

1. Roll Call

Roll Call

---- NAYS 156 ---

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Bachmann
Bachus
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Boozman
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Carter
Chabot
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Deal (GA)
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Hall (TX)
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herger
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
Kingston
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McKeon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller, Gary
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pitts
Poe
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Tancredo
Taylor
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (SC)

[riqster]

4. Notice that Kucinich changed his vote and supported the override

I'm glad to see it, and proud to support him.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Now what we need to do is start a letter writing campaign

and not let up. We should write to the newspapers and the TV stations and the radio stations in the hometown of the democrats that voted against this bill. Telling the people in those areas that these people who ran as democrats mislead them. That they are really republicans who told their constitutions lies to get their votes. That they have consistently voted for any law that bush wanted them to. And about them going to the whitehouse to get their orders right after they were elected. Also that they underhandedly took money from MoveON and other democratic organizations to get elected. That is was just a ploy set up by rove to sneak into the house of representatives. Knowing full well that if they said they were really republicans they wouldn't have gotten elected.

I am going to write and all the while telling them how bush lied about th e$83,000 limit and how their representatives let down children in this country.

[riqster]

3. Yup. They'll pay billions to kill Iraqi kids, but not to treat our own.

I can't wait to see the lot of them in prison.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. They will pay for this

For once in his life, slimeball Don Young voted correctly.

[spanone]

6. taxation with very little representation

[MH1]

7. 2 "Dems" voted no; 2 Dems did not vote

Dems voting no: Taylor and Marshall.

Dems not voting: Johnson, E. B., and Carson

Anyone know anything about these so-called "reps"? Who are they "representing"?