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Posted 01/30/09 at 06:47pm

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Breaking Down the Kids Health Bill (SCHIP) Vote

As we reported last night, the SCHIP kids health bill passed out of the Senate with provisions for legal immigrant children intact, despite heated opposition from Republican Senators. Here's what DemFromCT of Daily Kos had to say:

Bickering over legal immigrants marred the bipartisan support for the bill. Both Republican and Democratic parties are awkwardly feeling their way toward the new political reality in DC, which includes the desire for compromise, the fear of failure, the need to occasionally posture, and the need to pass effective legislation (and sometimes those realities will clash.)

Bickering is a nice way of putting it.

In reality, Republican Senators and Representatives filed amendment after amendment to gut provisions that would allow lawfully present immigrant kids to see a doctor. In effect, denying hundreds of thousands of eligible Latino and immigrant children access to health care in order to sound "tough on immigrants."

Thankfully they failed.

Thank you to everyone who sent a fax through our website - your voice made a huge difference. In the end, the bill was approved by all Senate Democrats and seven Republicans.  In the House, all but two Democrats voted for the bill, as did forty Republicans. The bill now moves forward without the hard-line amendments.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker Nancy Pelsoi (D-CA) should be praised for their leadership on on this. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) fought to move the bill forward with provisions for lawfully-present immigrant children intact.

As we discussed last night, the SCHIP amendment process should be a strong wake-up call for the new Congress:

It now serves as an illustration of how our Congressional Representatives will be forced to fight a succession of painful proxy-battles over immigration in the absence of a clear leadership strategy to get comprehensive immigration reform done early and well.

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