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ACTION ALERT: Overide Bush Veto of Children's Health Insurance

By Jim Callahan - Oct 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm EDT

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ACTION ALERT FOR ALL CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
ACTION ALERT FOR FLORIDA 24TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
From an e-mail by Dr. Howard Dean

his morning, President Bush rejected health care for children. Now it's time for Democrats to reject President Bush.

If we can get 2/3 of Congress to stand up to President Bush, we can overturn his veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- a program that provides health insurance for millions of kids.

We need your help to get those votes.

We've set up a simple tool that will allow you to write a letter and send it to your members of Congress instantly. Send your Senators and Representative a message telling them to stand up to George Bush:
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Bill History:
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How your member of Congress voted:
note bill title is "Small Business Tax Relief Act"
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How your Senator voted:
note bill title is "Small Business Tax Relief Act"
A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
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Florida
US Senate
Senator Bill Nelson(D): Yea
Senator Mel Martinez(R): Nay

US Congress, Florida
3rd Congressional District
Congresswoman Corrine Brown(D): Aye
8th Congressional District
Congressman Ric Keller(R): Aye
24th Congressional District
Congressman Tom Feeney(R): Nay

Remind Congressman Tom Feeney(R,FL,24th) he should represent the needs of his district and not just lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

Reader Comments

And as for Feeney

By John Patterson Oct 3rd 2007 at 3:14 pm EDT

take the time to watch this all, it starts slowly but gets real interesting in short order.

If you haven't seen it, you will be stunned!

Thanks to brasscheck TV for the Utube video...

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Re: And as for Feeney

By annie b (mcliberal) Oct 3rd 2007 at 3:37 pm EDT

there's nothing wrong with our reps. they passed the resolution. mcdummy vetoed it.

Re: And as for Feeney

By Jim Callahan Oct 3rd 2007 at 4:08 pm EDT

"LAST week, the House and Senate passed a compromise version of the bill that increases funding for the S-CHIP program by $35 billion above existing levels, for a total of $60 billion over the next five years. The bill passed the Senate by a veto-proof 67-to-29 vote. It passed the House by a vote of 265 to 159, short of the 290 needed to override a veto if all 435 House members are present and voting."

"But Senate Democrats say they do not expect that Congress will need to compromise with the Bush "administration over the level of funding or the terms of eligibility. 'It won't be necessary, because there are 25 votes in the House that are potentially getable,' says Sen. John Rockefeller (D) of West Virginia, who helped draft the first S-CHIP bill 10 years ago"

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"there's nothing wrong with our reps."
Don't adjust your reps?
"You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Republican Zone."
"It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge."
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Perhaps this is the twilight of the Republicans, we can only hope.

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

children's healthcare

By marsha Oct 3rd 2007 at 4:00 pm EDT

PLEASE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR.
I just sent this to mine.
Even if they voted "yea" before, remind them of what you want.
I could write a book on the problems over the last few years.
I can't even pay for his shots at a family clinic out of my own pocket, because the state is suppose to pay.
Marsha

Please override the president's veto.
My son's quality of healthcare as an adopted child has declined to the point where I must go to the County Health Dept. for his immunizations.
BUT, at least he has healthcare.
We don't, and there are plenty of other families like us.
86% of WE THE PEOPLE support the bill. They would authorize you to use their tax dollars to help care for our nation's kids?
We provide healthcare for people in prison.
What's wrong with this picture?

Children are a valuable national resouce.
George would sign it if it was to protect oil wells, now wouldn't he?

Re: children's healthcare

By Jim Callahan Oct 3rd 2007 at 4:17 pm EDT

"George would sign it if it was to protect oil wells, now wouldn't he?"
You are right.

The President takes an oath to defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic.

What about those domestic enemies our our children's life, breath and happiness? Children with cancer, cystic fibrosis and paralysis?

Is the country going to leave some of the children defenseless?

Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

Re: children's healthcare

By John Patterson Oct 3rd 2007 at 5:43 pm EDT

"Children are a valuable national resource."

especially to the insurance companies.... and they know if they get a taste of "socialized medicine" they will want more of it...

This is exactly what "IT" is all about.

Bush, protecting the vulnerable wealthy from thosee mean old poor and the middle classes.

Buncha neocon crybabies...."please don't take our monye away!!!" not for war, not for peace, not for roads or BRIDGES, Bush is there for one purpose, to complete that great transfer of wealth he has taken from our gandchildren and given to the billionaires of today.

Every one of those dollars has our childrens' names on it.