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The Senate rejected an effort by GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) to attach a provision blocking federal funding for Planned Parenthood to a massive government spending bill.
Senators voted 45-48 on Paul’s amendment, with 60 votes needed to add the provision into the spending bill. GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats to oppose the amendment.
The vote came after Paul was initially blocked from bringing up his amendment Leadership has agreed to block “poison pill” provisions, which would threaten the bipartisan support for the Defense-Education-Labor-Health and Human Services bill.
Paul’s amendment would prevent federal funding from going to the organization and others that provide abortions.
"I will never apologize for standing up for life. If it took exposing the preference of so many in my own party to continue reckless spending over protecting the innocent, it was a fight worth having,” Paul said in a statement after the vote.
Paul had lashed out at GOP leadership from the Senate floor earlier Thursday accusing them of blocking him from getting.a vote.
It keeps people coming back and donating every election.
Ditto. Ending abortion makes a nice rallying cry by conservative politicians. But they don't really want to end it for real.
In my culture, we have a saying. Hard to translate because american culture doesn't have such concept. But it loosely translates to keeping the enemy alive so you can keep fighting him for rewards.
Good. At least the Senate realizes the illogic of preventing non-profit agencies from providing much-needed services to underserved communities.
Thats what private charity is for
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