I got this in an email today from Kay Granger's office
Texas Congresswoman
Dear Friends,
Today, the House voted to sustain the President’s veto of the Democrat State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) bill. I voted to sustain the President’s veto of the bill and want to explain why.
I have been a long time believer of the S-CHIP program and I fully support continuing funding for the program to cover children from low income, working families – for whom the program was originally intended. What I don’t agree with is expanding the program to cover middle class children and adults, which the current bill does. The current bill also leaves the program completely unfunded five years from now - which is irresponsible.
I would support a bill that provides healthcare for needy kids that SCHIP was originally intended to support. That is why I am supporting the Kids First Act, which does exactly that.
The Kids First Act reauthorizes the S-CHIP program, and provides an additional $14 billion to cover kids from low-income, working families. The Kids First Act continues to cover all kids currently enrolled in the program, and provides for a 60 percent expansion of the program to cover additional children - which is good for Texas.
The Kids First Act does all this without raising taxes and without employing budget gimmicks that cut off funding for the program after five years. It phases out coverage for adults in order to make sure that the additional federal spending for this program is spent on the kids who need healthcare coverage. The Kids First Act will increase the number of kids enrolled in S-CHIP by 1.3 million in 2017.
Kid’s health care is too important to play partisan politics with, and that is exactly what is happening today. I have signed onto and introduced legislation that covers the millions who are without healthcare over my ten years in Congress, but I will not support the deceptive bill before us.
I replied with this....
I agree with your comments on SCHIP and would add to that...the funding for the bogus expansion was based on extremely flawed logic. To tax legal tobacco products into oblivion (especially cigars) in the name of health advocacy is morally reprehensible. So not only was the purpose ill-conceived, the funding premise was perhaps even more-so. It was cowardly for our congress to draft (and sell to the public) a piece of legislation supposedly FOR kids and AGAINST tobacco. How could anyone oppose that and not look and/or be portrayed as evil? To sacrifice an entire industry and Lord knows how many jobs, to this brand of partisan politics sickens me to no end.
Thank you for sticking to your guns thus far and good luck in fighting the good fight next time. We all know there will be a next time.
Hopefully it will actually get read by someone who matters.
Keep up the pressure boys. Gary's right
We've got to keep this issue in the minds of our congress. I'm not just talking cigars here, I'm talking the entire American Tobacco Industry and countless American jobs.
Write to your congressman today!!
Texas Congresswoman
Dear Friends,
Today, the House voted to sustain the President’s veto of the Democrat State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) bill. I voted to sustain the President’s veto of the bill and want to explain why.
I have been a long time believer of the S-CHIP program and I fully support continuing funding for the program to cover children from low income, working families – for whom the program was originally intended. What I don’t agree with is expanding the program to cover middle class children and adults, which the current bill does. The current bill also leaves the program completely unfunded five years from now - which is irresponsible.
I would support a bill that provides healthcare for needy kids that SCHIP was originally intended to support. That is why I am supporting the Kids First Act, which does exactly that.
The Kids First Act reauthorizes the S-CHIP program, and provides an additional $14 billion to cover kids from low-income, working families. The Kids First Act continues to cover all kids currently enrolled in the program, and provides for a 60 percent expansion of the program to cover additional children - which is good for Texas.
The Kids First Act does all this without raising taxes and without employing budget gimmicks that cut off funding for the program after five years. It phases out coverage for adults in order to make sure that the additional federal spending for this program is spent on the kids who need healthcare coverage. The Kids First Act will increase the number of kids enrolled in S-CHIP by 1.3 million in 2017.
Kid’s health care is too important to play partisan politics with, and that is exactly what is happening today. I have signed onto and introduced legislation that covers the millions who are without healthcare over my ten years in Congress, but I will not support the deceptive bill before us.
I replied with this....
I agree with your comments on SCHIP and would add to that...the funding for the bogus expansion was based on extremely flawed logic. To tax legal tobacco products into oblivion (especially cigars) in the name of health advocacy is morally reprehensible. So not only was the purpose ill-conceived, the funding premise was perhaps even more-so. It was cowardly for our congress to draft (and sell to the public) a piece of legislation supposedly FOR kids and AGAINST tobacco. How could anyone oppose that and not look and/or be portrayed as evil? To sacrifice an entire industry and Lord knows how many jobs, to this brand of partisan politics sickens me to no end.
Thank you for sticking to your guns thus far and good luck in fighting the good fight next time. We all know there will be a next time.
Hopefully it will actually get read by someone who matters.
Keep up the pressure boys. Gary's right
We've got to keep this issue in the minds of our congress. I'm not just talking cigars here, I'm talking the entire American Tobacco Industry and countless American jobs.
Write to your congressman today!!
