House Defies Bush And Passes Revised Child Health Bill

The US House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill to extend state supported child health insurance in defiance of a threat by President George W Bush to veto it. The vote, cast yesterday, was 7 votes short of the the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a presidential veto and comes only one week after a vote on an earlier draft of the bill also failed to do so. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on October 26th, 2007