Democrats Eager to Force Repeated SCHIP Votes

• By Steven T. Dennis and Emily Pierce
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 16, 2007, Midnight

Convinced children’s health care will be a political sword of Damocles against vulnerable Republicans, Democrats plan to keep the issue hanging over the GOP’s head between now and the 2008 elections — assuming the House votes as expected to sustain the president’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program veto on Thursday.