As Promised, Bush Vetoes SCHIP

Wednesday, October 03 2007

From MSNBC.com

President Bush vetoed the SCHIP bill at about 10 a.m. this morning. In her on-the-record, off-camera gaggle, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said that after vetoing the bill, President Bush is open to negotiating a deal with congressional Democrats. "The president is willing to listen to ideas ... with the focus on how do you get back to the original intent" of the program.

Asked whether he had reached out to Democrats on the issue, Perino said Pennsylvania Avenue is "a two-way street" and there have been no overtures from the Democrats. Instead, she said, they have "used a lot of different ways to demagogue the issue against the president."
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