Senate Endorses Chip Expansion, has Votes to Beat Veto
Billings Gazette, The › August 20, 2009
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The Senate bill would allow states to cover children in families with incomes up to 300 percent of the poverty level, and the House bill puts the threshold at 400 percent. The House bill would raise the cigarette tax by a lower amount than the Senate bill, by 45 cents per pack, and would cut extra payments to private Medicare Advantage plans to fund SCRIP.
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Senate Endorses Chip Expansion, has Votes to Beat Veto
WASHINGTON - By a veto-proof margin of 68-31, the Senate late Thursday approved a $35 billion, five-year expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program after Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., shepherded the bill through a weeklong debate.
"I'm thrilled," Baucus said in an interview "It's just...See the full content of this document
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