265-159: House passes SCHIP funding with strong support.

[kpete]

House passes SCHIP funding with strong support.

An overwhelming bipartisan majority in the House voted 265-159 tonight to pass the popular and successful Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act. The support fell just short of the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush’s expected veto of the bill. Speaker Pelosi called on Bush to “dig deeply into his heart” before depriving millions of children of health insurance:

I’m reminded of the Bible tonight, and I speak with all of the sincerity and all of the hope to President Bush in the hope that he will change his mind. To dig deeply into his heart and think about the children in America who don’t have healthcare. Because if not, I think that the President is giving new meaning to the words, ’suffer, little children.’ Suffer, little children, if your parents can’t afford health insurance.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/25/house-passes-schip-funding-with-strong-support/
and from the AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_go_co/children_s_health_14;_ylt=AmZADio1M_ISgo8ei49a0XgE1vAI

[babylonsister]

1. Oh, boy. What will dimson do now? The ball is in his court. Will he veto? nt

[durablend]

4. Is the sky blue? n/t

[Telly Savalas]

2. Kucinich voted against it?

I really hope it's not because he thinks kids should have to wait for his proposal to pass before they get access to health care.

[Mass]

6. Bill does not cover legal immigrant kids.

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=75275

[slipslidingaway]

7. Thanks for the link n/t

[MH1]

8. He implies that he thinks that.

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=75275

Washington, Sep 25 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), issued the following statement after voting against the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) conference report today:

“I cannot support legislation which extends health coverage to some children while openly denying it to other children,” Kucinich said. “This legislation is woefully inadequate: and I will not support it.

“Legal immigrant children deserve the same quality health care as other children receive. It is Congress’ responsibility to address the main difficulties that prevent legal immigrant children from gaining access to health care. Today, we did exactly the opposite.

“HR 676 guarantees full health care coverage for all children. When considering a universal health care proposal, HR 676, the Medicare for All bill, is the only health care plan that addresses three important issues: quality, accessibility, and cost. HR 676 stands alone in an increasingly crowded field of efforts to provide health care coverage to all,” Kucinich said.

It sucks that legal immigrant children are omitted, but it sucks worse to vote against the bill, in this political climate, just for that reason. IMO.

[Mass]

9. This is ONE vote of protest. Sometimes, I would like that more

Dems vote in protest. May be more things would get done.

[TheMadMonk]

11. And if the Democratics as a whole had refused to compromise a bit more often...

...perhaps the US would not be in the shape it's in today.

[paulk]

13. it's called grandstanding

DK is an idiot. He'd rather score political points than work toward any realizable goals.

What little respect I had left for him has completely disappeared with this vote.

[journalist3072]

3. Very disappointing that it fell short of a veto-proof 2/3 majority

In his first term, Bush hardly ever brought out the veto pen, but he seems to have gotten pretty comfortable with it in recent years.

If someone has the roll call vote, can you post it so I can see what nit-wits voted against it?

[rodeodance]

5. dang, they need to pick up some votes!!

[Raksha]

10. Sorry Nancy - Bush doesn't HAVE a heart!

But I thought you knew that.

[lonestarnot]

12. She would ask this of the Great Deceiver? Hmmmf.

What a waste of breath.