Senate passes children’s health insurance bill

Hello on this Friday, September 28, 2007. I’m Kristin Volk with a UPI Headline Update. The Senate has passed the children’s health insurance bill, despite President Bush’s vow to veto it. The program would double the number of children covered from 4 million to 8 million. The White House says the legislation fails to focus on poor children, and instead creates a program for higher-income households. The current program is scheduled to expire tomorrow. The White House is encouraging Congress to send the president a continuing resolution extending the plan. The leading Republican presidential candidates declined to debate last night at a historically Black college in Baltimore. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Senator John McCain were absent as well as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former Senator Fred Thompson. But those empty seats gave lesser-known GOP presidential hopefuls like Senator Sam Brownback and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee an opportunity to debate minority issues. Brownback said it was a disgrace that his rivals weren’t there. Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that military ruler Pervez Musharraf can run in presidential polls next week while keeping his role as army chief. That decision deals a major blow to the opposition. The court threw out legal challenges today which argued that Musharraf was ineligible to stand for another five-year term in office in the October 6 election. The Pentagon is saying goodbye to the nation’s …

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