Fox's Garrett notes Boehner's plea for "bipartisan" approach to
 
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:06 -0400

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<p><b>Fox's Garrett notes Boehner's plea for "bipartisan" approach to SCHIP, but
not bill's bipartisan support </b></p>
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<p>On the October 2 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>Special Report with Brit Hume</i>, reporting
on President Bush&#39;s intent to veto a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200710030012&http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&amp;docid=f:h976enr.txt.pdf">bill</a> passed by
Congress that would renew and expand the State Children&#39;s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP), Fox News congressional correspondent Major Garrett reported that "House GOP
leaders who vowed to sustain the president&#39;s veto accused Democrats of
pursuing a strategy of blind confrontation" and then quoted House
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) asking: "Why don&#39;t we work together
in a bipartisan way to make sure that we get health insurance to lower-income kids who need it? Why does everything have to
be a political game here in Washington,
 D.C.?" Yet Garrett did not
mention that, in fact, Congress did pass the SCHIP bill "in a bipartisan
way" -- 18 Republican
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200710030012&http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00353#top">senators</a> and 45 Republican <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200710030012&http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll906.xml">House</a> members voted for it.</p>

<p>From the October 2 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>Special Report with Brit Hume</i>:
</p><blockquote>

<p>GARRETT: Congress sent President
Bush a five-year, $35 billion expansion of the current State Children&#39;s Health
Insurance Program and braced for a veto.</p>

<p>HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER STENY HOYER
(D-MD): The president does not like to pay for things. And maybe that is why he
is opposed to this bill. </p>

<p>GARRETT: The bill raises the federal
cigarette tax by 61 cents, leveling it an even dollar per pack. The White House
opposes the cigarette tax, which it calls regressive, and attempts to expand
health coverage to children of parents who earn, in some cases, more than
$80,000 a year.</p>

<p>DANA PERINO (White House press
secretary): People who smoke are usually ones -- the majority are in the
low-income bracket. And so they&#39;re raising taxes on something to pay for
a middle-class entitlement. It just -- it&#39;s just completely
irresponsible.</p>

<p>GARRETT: Democrats said the public
is in their corner.</p>

<p>HOYER: Once again, the Democratic
Party finds itself aligned with over 70 percent of the American public, a very
risky political stance for us to take.</p>

<p>GARRETT: <b>House GOP leaders who vowed to sustain the president&#39;s veto accused
Democrats of pursuing a strategy of blind confrontation.</b></p>

<p>BOEHNER: <b>Why don&#39;t we work together in a bipartisan way to make sure that we get
health insurance to low-income kids who need it? Why does everything have to be
a political game here in Washington,
 D.C.?</b></p>

<p>GARRETT: Saddled with low approval
ratings and repeated failures to change Iraq
war policy, congressional Democrats will now challenge the White House and
Republicans on spending at home versus spending in Iraq. </p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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</b> Contact: <br />
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