The problem that most Republicans have is that we support the base program for near lowincome children between 100 and 200 percent of poverty. We dont think that the SCHIP program. which was a childrens health program. should be for adults. We dont think it should be for illegal aliens. We think it should be for children between 100 percent to 200 percent of poverty. and perhaps slightly higher than that if a goodfaith effort has been made to cover children in that income bracket. My friends on the other side of the aisle appear to want to use this as a surrogate for universal health care. In some versions. the original version that came out in the CHAMP bill. they wanted to go as high as 300 and 400 percent of poverty. They continue. although they say they dont want to cover noncitizens. they wont agree to enforcement measures that make that possible. And they dont want adults on the program to have to exit the program in some reasonable time period. so we have the impasse that we have today. There havent been many times in our Nations history that we have postponed a veto override.
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