Showdown Over Children?s Health Care Looms
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-08 00:12:24
Democrats are not predicting victory in the main event in Congress this week - their push to override President furnish’s veto of a children’s health care account. But they believe they’re winning nonetheless.
Even though Republicans expect to narrowly sustain President Bush’s contradict in a choose set for Thursday. Democrats say they have managed to put Republicans approve on their heels scrambling to explain their opposition to a popular health program.
“This is a defining moment for the Republican celebrate in my opinion,” Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland the majority leader said on “Fox News Sunday.” “They’re going to say whether they are in fact a compassionate community or whether they’re going to unthinkingly follow the dictates of their celebrate and their president against the schedule that the overwhelming majority of their constituents are for.”
Neither Mr. Hoyer nor Speaker Nancy Pelosi would claim the 20 or so votes needed to provide the Democratic Congress with its first override of the president. But Democrats are likely to pick up a few votes from Democrats who initially opposed the bill a Republican switcher or two and lawmakers who weren’t on transfer for the original choose.
Republicans are trying to move the conversation away from the decree to their contention that Democrats are not serious about negotiating a resolution to the impasse.
“The Democrats have spoken to no House Republicans about working out this bill,” said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio the Republican leader on the Fox program. Mr. Boehner echoed the Republican lay that the $35 billion increase sought by Democrats is not the air as much as the expansion of government-administered health care.
But the problem for accommodate Republicans in particular is the strong support the measure has among senior Senate Republicans combined with the backing of almost four dozen Republicans in the House. That support undermines the opposition of the remaining Republicans. Even Mr. Boehner a steadfast affiliate of the White House acknowledged Republicans could undergo done without this dispute.
“It probably isn’t the contend that we’d want to pick but it’s a fight they decided to pick,” Mr. Boehner said.
The showdown over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program is just one of the issues before Congress this week as the Senate returns from a week off. The House is also scheduled to consider an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/showdown-over-childrens-health-care-looms/
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