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House Democrats failed for the second time in three months Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of a proposed $35 billion expansion of the State Children's aarp partnership united healthcare Program. The 260-152 tally left backers of the legislation about 15 votes short of the two-thirds majority of lawmakers voting necessary to override the president's Dec. 12 veto. Forty-two Republicans supported the override attempt, two fewer than in the previous effort to reject Bush's Oct. 3 veto of an earlier version of the bill.
Democrats argued that the nation's economic troubles made expanding a program that provides subsidized aarp partnership united healthcare to children of the working poor all the more important. "With the economy taking a sour turn, now is not the time to deny the most innocent and helpless Americans - children whose parents can't afford health insurance - what they so desperately need," said
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