SCHIP Passed By Senate -- Vote 67- 29

CNN reports that sixty seven Senators voted in favor of the final passage of the SCHIP Reauthorization Bill earlier this evening. Twenty nine voted against. Four were absent including Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The bill seems veto proof in the US Senate.

The President has vowed to veto the Bill. It is time to write the President and ask him if he is willing to give up his and his family's government supplied free health insurance? After all he has enough money to pay for it out of his own pay. And what about all those Republicans who work in the White House? Why are they sucking off the government health care teat while they are willing to watch little kids go without?

Don't just sit there folks. Do something. Write the President and ask him how he can continue to accept free medical care while he refuses to make sure America's kids have health care. You might want to do the same with your friendly neighborhood Republican member of the House of Representatives.

I have posted a list of the Representatives who voted against SCHIP after the break. If you see your Representative on the list, give him or her a call. Ask if they are going to give up their free health care, or the free health care enjoyed by their families. Ask about the people on their staff. If he or she says no, ask what makes their kids so special. Be polite, but be firm. Tell them to vote to override if the President vetoes. Tell them that if they don't vote to override they might start thinking about finding new career. Tell them children's health is too damned important to be sacrificed on the alter of Republican ideology.


Representatives who voted against SCHIP.

Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Bachmann
Bachus
Baker
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Biggert
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Boozman
Boren
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Broun (GA)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Carter
Castor
Chabot
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Crenshaw
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Deal (GA)
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Etheridge
Everett
Fallin
Feeney
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves
Hall (TX)
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Hill
Hoekstra
Hulshof
Hunter
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
Kingston
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kucinich
Kuhl (NY)
Lamborn
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller, Gary
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pitts
Price (GA)
Putnam
Radanovich
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sali
Saxton
Schmidt
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shimkus
Shuster
Smith (NE)
Smith (TX)
Souder
Stearns
Sullivan
Tancredo
Taylor
Terry
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Walberg
Walden (OR)
Wamp
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wicker
Wilson (SC)