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Thursday, September 27, 2007
SCHIP Gets Cloture
The SCHIP expansion just got cloture (meaning it can't be filibustered and will get an up or down vote) on 69-30 vote (roll call). That's a veto proof majority! The vote on passage should be coming up shortly.
Plus, get this (emph. mine):
However, Democrats -- and their Republican allies on the issue -- made clear Bush's veto will not be the last word on the measure. They said they will keep coming back to the bill every six weeks to three months until either the White House relents or Republican opposition collapses.
"This fight will not end this week or next. If the president refuses to sign the bill, if he says, with a veto, 'I forbid 10 million children in America to have health care,' this legislation will haunt him again and again and again," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Is this a sign of things to come on the war funding and social spending bills?
Posted by Matt Lewis
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