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Dems: Anti-Abortion Amendment to be Striped Out Later (Stupak Doesn't Matter)
Publius Forum ^ | 11/10/09 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 11/10/2009 10:29:16 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus

At the last minute Representative Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) was successful in getting Speaker Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership to approve an amendment that would prohibit federal spending on abortion added to its nationalized healthcare bill passed and sent to the Senate over the weekend. But a senior Democrat says that the Stupak amendment will be stripped from the bill if the Senate returns the bill for approval.

Of course, the only reason that the House healthcare bill was passed out of the House at all was because of the Stupak Amendment, still left-wingers in Congress are vowing to strip the final bill of one of the only measures that appeals to moderates.

Far left Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D, Fla.) has vowed that the anti-abortion amendment will be gone by the time the bill comes up for a final vote after the Senate debate. Pro-abortion activist and Democratic Congressman from Colorado Diana DeGette has been passing around a letter to her far left colleagues vowing not to vote for a future healthcare bill that does not include abortion funding. She has announced that 40 House Democrats have signed her pledge...

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: 111th; bartstupak; bhoabortion; bhohealthcare; congress; healthcare; stupak
You can NEVER trust a Democrat.
1 posted on 11/10/2009 10:29:20 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

so congress can vote on something, then some committee can pass the exact opposite?


2 posted on 11/10/2009 10:44:31 AM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Hey Cao! How’s that faith that Dems keep promises going?


3 posted on 11/10/2009 10:51:36 AM PST by Jeb21 (www.jewsagainstobama.com)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Of course it doesn’t matter. It is a head fake. Congress has invented a lot of procedures that allow them to lie when they want to.


4 posted on 11/10/2009 2:38:04 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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