BREAKING…Kuhl, Reynolds vote against SCHIP
Here’s the roll call on the vote, 265-159, in favor. Forty five Republicans crossed lines to vote for it. Kuhl and Reynolds were not among them.
Here’s the Washington Post piece on it.
They need to keep votes against at 145 or lower to beat back the Decider’s veto.
Here’s an exceprt from the DCCC press release on Kuhl’s vote:
“Representative Randy Kuhl receives health care at taxpayers’ expense, but he voted to cut access to affordable, quality health care for 618973 kids in New York,†said Jennifer Crider, Communications Director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Representative Randy Kuhl chose politics over children’s health care by voting to support President Bush’s protection of tobacco companies.â€
(snip)
# If the SCHIP Program is not reauthorized before September 30, 2007,
* More than six million children will lose their health insurance coverage;
* Millions more will be forced to rely on costly emergency room care instead of getting preventative care; and
* Millions of working families will face the threat of foreclosure and bankruptcy because of crippling medical debt.
# This measure is funded by a $0.61 per pack increase in the tobacco tax.
From the Washington Post article:
Briefly, there was a human face to the issue on Capitol Hill yesterday when Bonnie Frost, a Baltimore woman whose four children ages 9 to 14 have been enrolled in the program for eight years, appeared at a news conference with one of them, Gemma, 9, to support the bill.
When Gemma and her brother Graeme, 12, suffered traumatic brain injuries in a car accident in 2004, SCHIP made it possible for them to get the medical care that they needed, said Frost, an associate a publishing company.
Frost and her husband, a self-employed carpenter, earn a combined $45,000 a year, less than twice federal poverty level for a family their size. She and her husband have been unable to buy private insurance for themselves, but are grateful their kids are covered by the program.
“It’s been amazing to be on this, especially with our accident and their injuries,” Bonnie Frost said. “It has never been a question whether they were going to receive health care. It’s been comforting.”
Update: By popular demand, the “sweaty Reynolds” picture:
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It has been a busy for for me so haven’t been on much but count me as unsurprised by Randy’s vote.
Randy will be tied with Bush for the duration.
can we see that sweaty picture of Reynolds with this post?
Now sing the theme song from “Cops” to this:
http://www.photolava.com/view/77c2.html
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