Because the republican congressman Wilson yelled "You lie" during Obama's speech (actually funny to watch liberals' outraged who booed Bush during his State of the Union address, Bush was called lier (by Kennedy), brain-dead (Pelosi, Dean, Reaid), and many more names) and broke the etiquette, now the White House is actually forced to respond to the claim about illegals being covered and offered to put an ammendment that would require citizenship verification in the bill. So Wilson did do a public service (eventhough it may not the most appropriate thing to do), his campagn website was hacked today, and now the money outpoor has rushed to him.
In the past republicans did offer the same amendment to include citizenship verification in the bill , and it was voted down across party line (all democrats voted against it).