.Bush ready with children's health-care veto No. 2

President Bush is ready to veto -- again -- a bill offering an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Bush vetoed the first $35-billion S-CHIP expansion that crossed his desk, complaining that it covered middle-class children at the expense of the poor. And his veto was sustained.

Democratic congressional leaders insist the expansion of a popular program which assists low-income families with health care could offer insurance to nearly 10 million children whose families cannot afford coverage on their own. But the White House says Congress still lacks the votes to override another S-CHIP veto -- which will be penned today.

"We have the votes still to sustain the veto," Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said this morning. "We'll get that done today, because the deadline is today.