Reply #168: Consider yourself proven wrong.

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Following the House’s failure Thursday to override President Bush’s veto of legislation expanding a children’s health insurance program, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed to send a similar bill to Bush in two weeks.

Pelosi said at a press conference after the vote that any future legislation reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) would cover 10 million children — the program currently covers 6.6 million. She declined to discuss whether Democrats would make other changes to the bill.

House and Senate Democratic leaders huddled shortly after the vote to confer on how to alter the bill to secure more Republican votes. Democratic aides said they would offer cosmetic changes, making it clearer that the bill does not allow illegal immigrants to be covered and capping the income eligibility level.

Democratic leaders did not mention the $35 billion five-year cost of the program, indicating that they might be willing to settle for less if the program covers 10 million children.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pelosi-vows-another-schip-vote-after-gop-sustains-bushs-veto-2007-10-19.html