posted November 08, 2007 03:03 PM              

Bush Dealt First Veto Override

POSTED: 12:31 pm EST November 8, 2007
UPDATED: 1:02 pm EST November 8, 2007
http://www.clickondetroit.com/politics/1454149 1/detail.html?treets=det&tml=det_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=det_natlbreak_1_11370211082007

Congress has handed President George W. Bush his first override.

The vote came as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite the president's protest that it was too expensive.

Besides the defeat for Bush, it marked the first time in a decade that Congress has passed a bill over a presidential veto.

The vote was 79-14 to pass the bill.

Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday in voting in favor of the same bill. The vote was 361-54.

The bill funds hundreds of Army Corps of Engineers projects, such as dams, sewage plants and beach restoration, that are popular in home districts.

The bill also includes money for the hurricane-hit Gulf Coast and for Florida Everglades restoration efforts.

The bill is the first water system restoration and flood control authorization passed by Congress since 2000. It would cost $11.2 billion over the next four years, and $12 billion in the 10 years after that, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

posted November 08, 2007 03:16 PM            

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This is a good thing but my question is, wasn't medical insurance for children important enough for Congress to override that veto by Bush?Mirandee

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Because the bill insured children who were up to 25 years old. Because it insured children of families making more than $83,000 a year and...Because it would have taken children who are now covered by private insurance from their parents employers out of private coverage and put them on the rolls of government paid insurance.

This bill was a miserable piece of leftist bullshiiit which did not focus on children of the truly poor...who are already covered by government insurance or eligible for the program already but rather sought to backdoor a socialist health care system piecemeal.