Harkin "shocked" at Bush veto threat

2007-07-20

Source: Radio Iowa

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, says he was "shocked" to learn this morning that President Bush is saying he will veto the bill to fund the program that provides insurance to low-income kids.

Harkin says Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and others had worked to create a compromise on the bill. Harkin says he was going to hold his nose and vote for the bill as it only includes $35 billion and he wanted $50 billion in the bill.

Harkin says at the least the $ 35 billion would get them through, "and now the administration has come out and says they're going to veto that... Boy, that's pretty amazing, that's all I can say."

The program is called the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or "S-Chip."

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