Thread: Sen. S-CHIP roll call vote: 9 B.O. Repubs vote to raise taxe

Senate S-CHIP roll call vote: 9 B.O. Republicans vote for raising taxes in a recession
By Michelle Malkin • January 29, 2009 11:39 PM

I don’t call them squishy, bend-over Barack Obama Republicans for nothing. Here’s the roll call vote on the massive S-CHIP expansion, funded with a huge tobacco tax increase that will hit the working poor the hardest in hard times. Nine Republican Senators joined the Democrats to shove the universal health care Trojan Horse through.

The GOP Senators voting YES to raising taxes in a recession in order to subsidize not-poor families and not-children “childrenâ€

Senate Passes SCHIP Expansion; First Step Toward National Health Care, Republicans Say

Friday, January 30, 2009
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(Update: On Friday, President Barack Obama said the SCHIP expansion amounts to "a down payment on my commitment to ensure that every American has access to quality, affordable health care.")

Washington (AP) – The Democrat-controlled Senate on Thursday voted 66-32 to pass a bill expanding government-sponsored health insurance for children.

Nine Republicans joined 57 Democrats in voting for the bill. No Democrat voted against it.

(The nine Republicans voting for the SCHIP expansion were Sens. Alexander and Corker of Tennessee, Collins and Snowe of Maine, Hutchison of Texas, Lugar of Indiana, Martinez of Florida, Murkowski of Alaska, and Specter of Pennsylvania.)

The bill, which currently covers about 7 million children at a cost of $25 billion, would authorize an additional $32.8 billion over the next 4-and-a-half years to enroll another 4 million people in the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

SCHIP was created ten years ago to provide health insurance to low-income children whose parents make too much money to qualify for Medicaid but too little to pay for private health insurance.

While Democrats called Senate passage of the SCHIP expansion a victory for kids, Republicans called it a victory for national health care.

“This debate had nothing to do with children,â€

I have made calls to voice my frustration and disappointment in the votes of these Republicans. Please call and email these 9 and let as many as possible know that they have betrayed the American people. Email these betrayers' names to your contacts.

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