Randy Kuhl!
Dan Brown, who didn’t write the DaVinci code (and is apparently ok with that), writes today in Huffington Post an idea for overriding the presidential veto for SCHIPS:
This anti-child health insurance position is a loser, morally and politically, for Bush and his followers. New York, California, New Jersey, and several other states are suing the Bush administration over blocking SCHIP. The Senate already has enough support for a two-thirds override of the presidential veto.
The House, however, is about 15 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority. America’s struggling children desperately need fifteen members of the House of Representatives to change their minds on this issue over the next two weeks.
Who actually might switch their vote? I’ve done some checking, and below are eight Democrats and thirty-eight Republicans who have proven themselves not to be straight-down-the-line partisan hacks.
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If there is an exclamation point (!) next to their name, that representative also voted FOR H.R. 1, a vote to implement many of the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Republicans who voted yea on these bills broke ranks with the G.O.P. majority. Their votes to raise minimum wage could indicate empathy for low-income American families. Perhaps their minds can be changed on helping those minimum and near-minimum wage families get health care.
Well, guess who rated an exclamation point? Our very own congressman from the 29th-Rubberstampin Randy! Obviously Dan brown does not know RR like we know RR, but maybe there’s hope. Maybe the protests of yesterday will not be in vain. Maybe the cries of the protesters will not fall on deaf ears. Maybe…….
Great catch. It will be tough to move Randy on this one, but if we keep pushing there’s a chance.
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