Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/house-passes-revised-childrens-health-insurance-bill Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The U.S. House passed a revised version of legislation aimed at expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program Thursday, but not by the two-thirds margin necessary to override a promised presidential veto. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Next, Congress tries once again to extend the children's health care program. NewsHour congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports. KWAME HOLMAN: House Democrats today tried to pass a ramped-up version of the state children's health care program legislation the president vetoed earlier this month. It would extend government-funded health insurance to 10 million children whose families don't qualify for Medicaid at an increased cost of $35 billion over five years.REP. JOHN DINGELL (D), Michigan: The bill makes changes to accommodate the president's stated concerns. KWAME HOLMAN: But a solid group of Republicans, including Florida's Ginny Brown-Waite, dismissed the bill.REP. GINNY BROWN-WAITE (R), Florida: You can take horse manure and roll it in powdered sugar and it doesn't make it a donut.