SCHIP: Our Voices Are Being Heard

This week, one million petition signatures supporting the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- thousands of which were collected by Campaign for America's Future -- were delivered to Congress by MoveOn.org and SEIU.

While this massive grassroots outpouring appears to have been completely ignored by the media, congresspeople are nevertheless feeling the public pressure.

The House is on the verge of essentially accepting the Senate version of the SCHIP bill, and the Washington Post reports: "The bill already has veto-proof support in the Senate, and opposition may be crumbling in the House."

It remains unclear if opposition will crumble enough to let the House override President Bush's expected veto.

But the momentum is clearly on the side of kids. Conservative attempts to denigrate the bill with misinformation are a bust.

The choice Republican House members will soon have is clear: side with an unpopular president and stand for bad government, or side with America's kids and stand for good government.

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