President Highlights Healthy Vision and Classroom Learning Link as SCHIP Legislation Signed Into Law WASHINGTON, Feb.

WASHINGTON _ Despite weeks of intense political pressure on select GOP lawmakers, Democrats in the House of Representatives failed Thursday to garner enough Republican support to overturn President Bush's veto of a bipartisan bill to expand health coverage for low-income children.

By Al Hubbard When it comes to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the president's priority is to ensure the program covers poor children first. Only in Washington is such a simple concept controversial.

By Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News, Maine Jul. 17--BANGOR -- With funding for the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, coming up soon for a vote in the U.S. Senate, advocates for universal health care took aim Monday at a different federal program they claim is overfunded.

WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- As President Bush, governors and members of Congress debate how much federal funding to devote to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a new analysis provides a clearer look at uninsured children in every state.