More specifically, remember the $35 billion S-CHIP expansion package that President Bush vetoed twice in 2007? Though the House's Democrat leadership clearly signaled their acceptance of the fact that they won't be able to override the second veto any more than they could the first by passing a simple extension of the current program by a 411-3 margin, the vote on whether to override or sustain the second veto will still take place, as planned, on Jan. 23 (this coming Wednesday).
Word on the street is that the timing was specifically chosen to make children's health insurance a public-eye issue just in time for the President's Jan. 28 State of the Union Address.