The House this evening cleared to President Bush a bill that would expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The vote was 265-159.
Bush has threatened to veto the bill, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she hopes the president will “dig deeply into his heart and think about the children in America who don’t have healthcare. Because if not, I think that the president is giving new meaning to the words, ’suffer, little children’” from the Bible.
Pelosi’s office has posted speeches from other Democratic lawmakers online, including:
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With Senate Democrats vowing to force Republicans into a literal filibuster over the Iraq war rather than a procedural one, House Democrats apparently don’t want to miss out on all of the fun. The leadership in the lower chamber coordinated a series of “one-minute speeches” at the beginning of today’s floor debate.
The Gavel, the blog maintained by the staff of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., published video and pullout quotes of some of the speeches, and Pelosi’s office posted more of them to YouTube. Here are links:
Categories: Maryland, New York, California, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Iraq, Democrats, Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, John Hall, Hank Johnson, John Sarbanes, Albio Sires, Russ Carnahan, Frank Pallone, Tom Udall, Zoe Lofgren
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Lawmakers returned to Washington today, and PoliticsTV was there to capture on video the rise of Democrats to control of Congress for the first time in 12 years.
The site has a whole series of video interviews with House Democrats. Rather than reposting the video segments here, I’ll link to the related PoliticsTV entries by member:
Categories: Maryland, Florida, House, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Producer's Picks, Jason Altmire, Charlie Wilson, 110th Congress, Tom Allen, Barney Frank, Chris Van Hollen, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Sander Levin, Russ Carnahan, Brad Miller, Frank Pallone, Steve Rothman, Adam Schiff, Tom Udall, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz
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