SCHIP Roll Call and Highlights
The Gavel has video highlights from today’s House debate on overriding President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill (H.R. 976)
Forty-four Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the override. Two Democrats —
Reps. Gene Taylor (MS) and Jim Marshall (GA) — sided with the president. You can read the Wall of Shame here.
Taking a swipe at the president, Speaker Pelosi said, “So when the President wants to have four or five million children instead of 10 million children in this initiative, is he the one, the ‘Decider,’ who wants to go to that family and say, ‘your child is out’?”
Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL) promised, "Democrats will not back down and we will insist on providing health care coverage to these 10 million children.” We’ll see how well Emmanuel sticks to his promises.
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