Gallup: Obama Approval with Catholics Mostly Unchanged After Birth Control...
A Gallup poll out today shows virtually no ill effects to President Obama’s poll numbers among Catholics after a week of controversy about birth control access rules opposed by the US Conference of...
View ArticleReid Will Allow Vote on Blunt Amendment, Extending Birth Control Access Debate
Happy to allow a debate on birth control in 2012, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will give Republicans a vote on an amendment to the surface transportation bill authored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO),...
View ArticleDemocrats Plan Vote on Blunt Amendment, to Trap Republicans in Their Birth...
Senate Democrats plan to allow a vote next week on an amendment to the surface transportation bill by Republican Roy Blunt, which would expand “conscience protections” in the Affordable Care Act. While...
View ArticleBlunt Amendment Offers Clash of Ideologies
We’re going to have that rare moment this week in Congress, a vote which both sides anticipate with a certain glee. The transportation bill is on the floor of the Senate this week, and Democrats can’t...
View ArticleBlunt Amendment Getting Vote Today
At this hour, the Senate is voting on the Blunt amendment, a measure that would give employers the power to restrict any type of coverage of specific medical treatments to their employees, simply by...
View ArticleBlunt Amendment Tabled: Casey, Manchin, Nelson Cross Over
The Senate voted to table the Blunt amendment today, but several Democrats crossed the aisle to vote with Republicans and for an amendment that would give employers effective control over the medical...
View ArticleDay After Blunt Amendment, Republicans Vow “Fight is Not Over”
Like all middle-aged men, Senate Republicans imagine themselves experts on women’s health, and they plan to continue to fight to eliminate free preventive women’s health services like birth control,...
View ArticleMurkowski Has Remorse Over Blunt Amendment
Apparently, Lisa Murkowski was unprepared for the impact of her voting for the rule to have employers dictate the health care choices of half the nation’s population. Back from Washington, D.C., for...
View ArticleRepublicans Bravely Run Away From Further Birth Control Votes
Remember the charge of the light brigade last week after the defeat on the Blunt amendment vote? Conservative lawmakers said they would not retreat, would not rest until all women had to get permission...
View ArticleRepublican Establishment Crawling Back to Todd Akin
Here comes the calvary. I mentioned this morning that Todd Akin passed the deadline to take his name off the ballot in the Missouri Senate race. Claire McCaskill’s campaign immediately responded with a...
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