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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2007
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Bush vetoes child health care program
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WASHINGTON — President Bush's health secretary said he did not expect Congress to override a veto on children's insurance and warned that the popular program could be at risk unless Democrats restrain spending.
Leavitt said the Democratic-controlled Congress, not the Republican administration, would pay the political price if the State Children's Health Insurance Program stalled due to gridlock. Congress continued funding the program at its current level until mid-November as part of legislation keeping government agencies operating beyond Oct. 1, the start of the new budget year.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Bush would be willing to provide more than the $5 billion increase over five years that he first proposed. He declined to say how much additional money was possible.
"I'm presuming the Democrats do in fact want the children's insurance program to be reauthorized," Leavitt said.
"The president knows bad policy when he sees it. He has said as clearly as possible that 'I want to reauthorize this program and I'm prepared to add to the 20 percent increase I've already proposed'. But we need to have a serious conversation that involves all of the points of view." Leavitt said.
But in a warning to Democratic leaders who pledged to stick with their $35 billion increase, Leavitt said Bush would not waver despite attempts to override his veto last week.
An override requires a two-thirds majority in the House and Senate. The Senate approved the increase by a veto-proof margin, but the House fell about two dozen votes short of a two-thirds majority. The House scheduled an override vote for Oct. 18.
After his veto, Bush immediately signaled a willingness to compromise on a new bill, but congressional Democrats stood firm.
"It's hard to imagine how we could diminish the number of children who are covered," said Pelosi, D-Calif., in an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday." "The president calls himself 'the decider,' and I don't know why he would want to decide that one child has health care and another does not."
In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking support from 14 more Republicans to vote against the GOP president.
"You cannot wring another ounce of compromise out of this",
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said last week.
Bush and Leavitt decried the spending increase primarily supported by Democrats as unnecessarily subsidizing middle-income people as part of Democrats" "goal of government-run health care for every American."
The program provides health insurance to children in families with incomes too great for Medicaid eligibility but not enough to afford private insurance.
But Rep. Charles Rangel, D.N.Y., said Congress already compromised enough, noting that House leaders wanted $50 billion for the program but dropped it down to $35 billion to appease Senate Republicans.
"We're prepared to have negotiations at any time the Democrats want to," he said. "Unfortunately they put it off for two weeks so they can play politics with children's health care."
Rangel said Bush would suffer the political consequences if the program were not reauthorized.
Leavitt said the veto override effort was sure to fail and as a result would waste two weeks during which the administration could work with Congress on new legislation.
"We're almost convinced that if the moral thing is being done and you listen to the children's agency, the churches and the synagogues and the mosques, that we'll have those votes to override the president," Rangel said on "Face the Nation" on CBS.
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