"Eligibility: Most states cap eligibility to families whose income is less than twice the government poverty level, or $41,228 for a family of four in 2006. The bill would have limited the full federal match to families with incomes less than three times the poverty level, or $61,842 for a family of four."
Why isn't a twenty percent increase enough?
"What's next: Bush has recommended a 20 percent increase in the program's size, to an average $6 billion over the next five years, and administration officials have indicated a willingness to negotiate."
http://www.star-telegram.com/national_news/story/256572.html
On C-span this morning, Republicans were saying they wanted to get the override bill vote done so they could present new legislation to get children funded. But the Democrats are stalling. Is that because they want it to appear that the SCHIP program will not be funded at all?
2007-10-04
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