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Bush Medicaid Rules Blocked by Senate Appropriations
Committee Bill
Committee also includes $275 million for FDA, blocks
SCHIP directive
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 Senator
Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Chairman, Senate Appropriations
Committee predicted Thursday, We
will roll back Medicaid regulations that our nations governors
believe will disrupt coverage for vulnerable citizens. He
points out, The Medicaid legislation passed the House 349-62. |
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May 16, 2008 - The
Senate Appropriations Committee
on Thursday approved a $193 billion supplemental war appropriations
bill that includes a
provision to block for one year seven new Medicaid regulations proposed
by the Bush administration, CongressDaily reports.
The legislation, which has three parts -- war
spending, policy conditions for the funds and domestic spending -- also
includes $275 million for
FDA. Before the passage
of the bill, the committee unanimously approved an amendment proposed by
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) that would block for one year an SCHIP
policy directive
announced last year by the administration (Kivlan, CongressDaily, 5/15).
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that he hopes to move
the bill to the floor on Monday.
The Senate plans to hold separate votes on each of
the three parts of the bill. According to CQ Today, the "Senate will ...
have to reconcile the House version with its own committee's language
and muster some Republican support to get a final version through the
chamber," which "will not be easy" (Rogin/Higa, CQ Today, 5/15).
House Version
Meanwhile, the House on Thursday approved two parts of the bill --
the sections on domestic spending and policy conditions for war funds --
but rejected the part on war spending, CQ Today reports (Clarke/Higa, CQ
Today, 5/15). The House version of the legislation, which would cost
$183.7 billion, includes the provision to block the Medicaid
regulations.
President Bush on Thursday said that he would veto
the bill (Sanchez/Bourge, CongressDaily, 5/15). Bush threatened to veto
the legislation because of the lack of war spending and the policy
conditions for war funds (Taylor, AP/Baltimore Sun, 5/16).
According to the
Washington Post,
although Bush also opposes the part of the bill on domestic spending,
those funds "will garner considerable support in both parties," which
makes the prospects for that section of the legislation more "unclear"
(Weisman, Washington Post, 5/16).
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