US House Fails to Override SCHIP Veto

The US House of Representatives today fell 13 votes short of overturning President Bush's veto of legislation reauthorizing SCHIP, the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

 

Here's how the Texas delegation voted:

YEAS

Henry Cuellar, Lloyd Doggett, Chet Edwards, Charles Gonzalez, Gene Green, Al Green, Rubén Hinojosa, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Nicholas Lampson, Solomon Ortiz, Silvestre Reyes, Ciro Rodriguez

 

NAYS

Joe Barton, Kevin Brady, Michael Burgess, John Carter, Michael Conaway, John Culberson, Louie Gohmert, Kay Granger, Ralph Hall, Jeb Hensarling, Sam Johnson, Kenny Marchant, Michael McCaul, Randy Neugebauer, Ron Paul, Ted Poe, Pete Sessions, Lamar Smith, Mac Thornberry

 

NOT VOTING
Eddie Bernice Johnson, absent due to her mother's grave illness.

 

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