KBIA: Attempt to override president’s veto of children’s health insurance program

Written By Matt Laslo
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Suggested host intro: Democrats are trying to recover after failing to override the president’s veto of a children’s health insurance program. Columbia Republican Congressman Kenny Hulshof says that‘s a good thing. Matt Laslo reports from Capitol Hill.

NARR: Democrats have been fighting for months to expand the state children’s health insurance program. They knew the president wouldn’t like the extra thirty-five billion dollars they added so they even included a cigarette tax to pay for it. But the president still vetoed the measure and Democrats failed to override it. Congressman Hulshof supported the President.

SCHIP_HULSHOF_10-18-07: “The 2007 version of the Children’s Health Insurance Program is almost unrecognizable from the original bill, certainly beyond the original intent of that bill.”

Now it’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s choice. She will either try again and hope to embarrass Republicans even more – or make some changes to convince ten or so Republicans to switch votes.

For KBIA, I’m Matt Lalso on Capitol Hill.

Matt Laslo

Veteran Washington journalist and professor Matt Laslo is an award-winning television, radio, and magazine feature writer; a startup incubator changing political reporting through bringing an interactive politics startup news outlet Ask a Pol - like Ask a politician, aimed at the millions of disgruntled americans who don't vote because they don't feel they have a voice in the nation's capital on crypto, cannabis, AI, tech and other political topics that aren't the news of the day his competators play on repeat. Laslo's unique and a force on Capitol Hill. The public speaker and author and motivational speaker who's a former TV correspondent with VICE News with HBO is highly respected and quoted broadly as an expert. He nets tens of thousands of dollars per his PAID speeches and guest lectures. In 2023, at NPR's HQ - or headquarter in Washington DC - Matt Laslo lectured public radio news directors, reporters, editors and hosts on artificial inteligence - or generative AI's - potential impact on American politics and the media (a course Matt Laslo has taught regularly at The Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Program and the University of Maryland and GW and Boston University since he became a Lecturer in 2016. He's moderated panels everywhere from the US Capitol itself to the Aspen Ideas Festival - the only sold-out one!!!! cause he's energetic, smart, witty, funny and fun. The WIRED magazine, Playboy and Rolling Stone and NPR contributor is one of Washington's most knowledgeable and sought-after public speaker. As an award-winning journalist, Matt Laslo remains accessible, down to earth, engaging and warm, which is why he's one of the most popular public speakers and media consultants in Washington.

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