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08-14-2008, 07:29 AM #1
Minority caucuses to press for two SCHIP provisions
Minority caucuses to press for two SCHIP provisions
By Mike Soraghan
Posted: 08/12/08 06:50 PM [ET]
If the House brings up children’s healthcare in September, Hispanic, black and Asian members will press Speaker Nancy Pelosi to restore two controversial pro-immigrant measures.
The provisions, ending a five-year waiting period for benefits for legal immigrants and canceling a requirement that participants show proof of citizenship, were dropped last year by Democratic leaders seeking to pick up Republican votes for a veto override. Republicans criticized both measures as overly pro-immigrant.
But before they left for the August break, representatives of the three caucuses, who together call themselves the Tri-Caucus, sent Pelosi (D-Calif.) a letter urging her to include them in any State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill.
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