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SCHIP invaded by illegal immigrants? House votes today
SCHIP invaded by illegal immigrants? House votes today
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SCHIP invaded by illegal immigrants? House votes today
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 12:36 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With the House set to vote today to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) has found a new reason to hate the bill. Illegal immigrants.
All of Georgia’s Republican congressmen voted against a similar bill in August that would have added at least $35 billion to the program, known locally as PeachCare, despite the program’s success and popularity at home. The vote today is on a compromise bill worked out by House and Senate negotiators
Taking their lead from President Bush, Georgia GOPers argue that SCHIP is a first step toward socialized medicine, a wild expansion of governmental powers and no longer doing what it was designed to do a decade ago.
Just hours before the House vote Tuesday, however, Deal warned his fellow congressmen in a “Dear Colleagueâ€
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