The President vetoed the SCHIP expansion plan. Dems couldn't come up with enough votes to override that veto. Not today, anyway. They say they're coming back. With a vengeance.
Defiant Pelosi vows to send Bush new kid-health bill
Democratic leaders said today that they will send another bill to President Bush within two weeks to expand a health-care plan to 10 million children. Defiant after failing to override the president's veto of the huge expansion of the program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Democrats would accept nothing less. She expressed confidence that the party could gain another 10 to 12 Republican votes that she said would give the measure a veto-proof majority. Nine Republicans changed their position on [...]
Meanwhile, the "Moderate Voice" blog says Dems should have pointed out --
In the losing fight to override Bush’s veto, Democrats may have put the spotlight on the wrong victims. Instead of pushing forward 12-year-old brain injured Graeme Frost and two-year-old Bethany Wilkerson with her heart problem, they might have converted more Republicans by emphasizing the other sufferers from unaffordable health care–America’s small business owners. “The future [...]
Tags: SCHIP, Health Care, Pelosi, Veto
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