Congress Defies Bush, Passes Child Health Bill
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WASHINGTON — A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted yesterday to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income children, and President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue.
The legislation cleared the Senate on a vote of 64–30. It passed the House last week, but supporters were shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Mr. Bush’s threatened veto.
“We’re convinced that the president has undermined an effort to protect children,” the majority leader, Senator Reid, a Democrat of Nevada, said shortly before the vote.
