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House Passes Children's Health Care Package
News — ... to provide health insurance to over ten million children whose families have been hurt most by this downturn," President-elect Obama said. "This coverage is critical, it is fully paid for, and I hope that the Senate acts with the same sense of urgency so that it can be one of the first measures I sign into law when I am President." Southern Reps. Bobby Bright (Ala.) and Jim Marshall (Ga.) were the two Democrats to vote against the bill. Six lawmakers did not participate in the vote. See how your member of Congress voted here .

SCHIP Passes the House: 289 - 139
Firedoglake — ... SCHIP (H.R. 2) passed in the House today on a vote of 289 for and 139 against. The roll call for the vote can be found here. Howie has the run-down on some procedural maneuvers from the GOP, with whom several wayward Dems also joined. Readers will no doubt recognize some of the names involved: Heath Schuler (NC), Baron Hill (IN), Walt Minick (ID), Bobby Bright (AL), Gene Taylor (MS), Jim Marshall (GA), and Mike McIntyre (NC). Especially those Blue Dogs we lambasted last time around on SCHIP. Clearly they didn't quite get the ...

House easily passes S-CHIP
Political Animal — ... legislation twice in 2007 "Soon we will have a new president who has committed himself to reforming our nation's health care system so every American can access affordable and quality health care." said Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J. "The bill we are considering today makes a down-payment on that promise." The Senate is scheduled to take up the bill tomorrow. If Republicans filibuster the legislation, as they do every major bill, there are more than enough votes to pass it anyway. The roll call is online here , but I'd note two groups of people of particular interest. There were ...

Tax Increase Passes House To Pay For 30 Year Old “Children’s” Health Care
Flopping Aces — ... Forty House Republicans voted for SCHIP today (which included a huge tax hike), including freshmen Steve Austria of Ohio (who voted for former Gov. Taft’s huge tax hike in the state legislature), Leonard Lance of New Jersey, Erik Paulsen of Minnesota, Chris Lee of New York, Glenn Thompson of PA, and Anh Cao of Louisiana. Full list can be found here. The bill was described by the AP as such: ...

Signs of Democratic Coattails in SCHIP Vote?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... SCHIP passed the House by a vote of 289-139 today, getting the support of all but two Democrats and just under a quarter of Republicans. This compares with a margin of ...

S-CHIP Crumb-Bum Roll Call, 2009 Edition
Swing State Project — As you may know, the House just passed (once again) an expansion to S-CHIP which will, of course, be signed by incoming President Obama after two vetoes from George Bush. In 2007, SSP ...

What a difference three months makes
Political Animal — ... of S-CHIP and shrinks from reaffirming its defining principles, social welfare programs will never help poor Americans escape governmental dependence. Instead, the Democrats will continue their push to shackle Americans with a bureaucrat-centered health care system and other insidious forms of governmental dependence; and our Republican Party -- the party of the Great Emancipator -- will not only lose the next election. It will lose its soul. That was in October. Yesterday, McCotter voted for the exact same S-CHIP bill. So, what happened? A month after writing that the ...

MI-11: Guess who lost his soul?
Daily Kos — Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, October 3, 2007: If the GOP doesn’t battle Dems on SCHIP, the party will "not only lose the next election. It will lose its soul." Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, yesterday: Aye House Race Hotline: The biggest "aye" surprise came from Thad McCotter (R-MI 11). Yes, that's the same McCotter who heads the conservative GOP Study Cmte and who blogged during the '07 S-CHIP vote that GOPers should battle Dems on the bill, and if they ...

Rep. McCotter Votes For SCHIP, Loses His Soul
Think Progress — ... to an additional 4.1 million children and parents, including legal immigrant children and pregnant women, who currently must wait five years before becoming eligible for the program.” President Bush blocked a similar piece of legislation in 2007, backed by conservatives who complained that the measure was too expensive. This time, SCHIP advocates were joined by six Republicans who had voted against the bill last year. Interestingly, one of those lawmakers was Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI). So what changed? After all, in 2007, McCotter not only ...

Rep. McCotter Votes For SCHIP, Loses His ?Soul?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... who had voted against the bill last year. Interestingly, one of those lawmakers was Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) . So what changed? After all, in 2007, McCotter not only voted against the legislation, he was a leading voice in arguing for its defeat. When Catholics United ...

“Republican” Leonard Lance: 60% Voting Record with Liberals
PoliPundit.com — ... Harry Reid and Barack Obama on 3 of them for a 60% voting record with the Democrats! What a disgrace to call yourself a Republican with that kind of a voting record. His latest vote with the Democrats was one of ONLY THREE Republican votes in the House for passage of the bill. Here is the Leonard Lance Voting Like a Liberal Scorecard: 1. HR-12 Paycheck Fairness Act - Voted NO 2. S-181 Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act - Voted YES (switched vote from NO on HR-11) 3. HR-2 SCHIP - Voted YES 4. HR-384 TARP Bailout - Voted YES 5. HR-1 ...

WaPo's Fred Hiatt: It's Only OK If You're A Republican
Daily Kos — ... Twitter, check this out from Republican twit Thaddeus "Thaddeus" McCotter: Washington Post highlights DCCC hypocrisy Hey, you wanna get into hypocrisy, Thad? We can do that: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, October 3, 2007: If the GOP doesn’t battle Dems on SCHIP, the party will "not only lose the next election. It will lose its soul." Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, yesterday: Aye ...

Kirk for Senate?
NJDC Blog — ... . Republicans voted against 175-0. Had Kirk and the Republicans prevailed, the bill would have been killed. But wait: Democrats voted 244-3 in favor of bringing it to a vote, and when it came to the floor, Kirk flip-flopped and voted in favor of the same bill he had just voted to kill. He can thus truthfully tell opponents of the program that he tried to stop it, and he can tell supporters of the program that he voted for it. ...