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Twenty-one countries of the money for child health insurance in the coming years and at least nine of these countries, wear their plots in March, when Congress simply spending at current levels, a new study of the Confederation said.

The results emergency bipartie added discussions on Capitol Hill to overcome a deadlock over expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Top House Republican, including representatives John A. Boehner of Ohio, the minority leader, met Tuesday senators of both parties, including the chairman of the Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana in an attempt to find a compromise.

Its objective is the revision of a law, the veto of President Bush, as Republicans seek support from entering the house and enough votes for another threat of veto by the president.

Mr. Bush expressed regret that officials of the White House were not included in the discussions.

“After just, you go nowhere and Congress should work with the administration in a draft law defines the poor children first,” Bush said Tuesday.

Federal states is not the quality, development of emergency plans in case it runs short.

The officials in charge of children’s health program in California Tuesday, they were on the modalities of implementation, so that the state create a waiting list and remove some of the 1.1 million children already on roles.

“The impasse in Washington, has a real impact on children here,” said Lesley S. Cummings, director of the Agency, the health program for children in California. “Given the insecurity persists, we will begin filing children under the program - 64,000 per month, starting in January - to save money. It is less and less natural and less hypothetical.

According to the new study, the Congressional Research Service, the nine States that have no money to March, Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

The federal budget for the program amounts to $ 5 billion for the current year, began on October 1st But States, their own estimates, spend waiting for $ 7.6 billion. To continue the coverage of people enrolled in the 21 Member States require an additional $ 1.6 billion for the current year, the study said.

The bill vetoed by Mr. Bush, as similar legislation adopted last week by the Assembly, $ 9 billion during the year, or 80 percent more than plots underway, Congressional Research Service said. Some plots more than doubled from 14 countries, including Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi and North Carolina. In recent years, expenditures in these countries has often exceeded plots.

The Senate passed the bill’s original children’s health in the last month, 67 to 29, 18, the Republicans to vote for him. Two Republicans, Senators Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and G. Orrin Hatch of Utah, helped write the accounts and negotiations with the house were members of both parties to round Republicans support a revised version of the bill.

Tensions between Republicans began to Tuesday, as Senate Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, complained that the Bush administration of Republican Senate and driving licences were in negotiations.

“There are a multitude of problems related to billing” and “big problems” with negotiations, “said Lott. He chided Mr. Hatch and Mr. Grassley, who say they have tried to reach agreement on children’s health programme without sufficient consultation him or the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.