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Posted on 04/11/2011 3:16:46 PM PDT by topher
BREAKING: Senate vote on Planned Parenthood, health law funding, set for Thursday
by Kathleen Gilbert
Mon Apr 11, 2011 16:16 EST
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate has scheduled a promised vote on whether to deprive the Planned Parenthood Federation of America of federal funding - a concession won by GOP budget negotiators this weekend, in exchange for their support for the federal budget bill.
Americans United for Life (AUL) reported Monday that only days after cutting a budget deal that saved Planned Parenthood’s funding in the budget bill, Senate leaders have scheduled a vote on Thursday to consider legislation by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) to defund the organization; that legislation has already passed the House of Representatives.
“This is the vote that Washington, DC insiders said we’d never get, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid swore he would never allow,” AUL notes. Reid had characterized the Planned Parenthood effort as one of a handful of GOP demands that were “not only no, but hell no.”
Additionally, the Senate is expected to hold a vote Thursday on whether to fund the abortion-expanding health care reform law: another major concession won by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) amid budget negotiations Friday night.
Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America said that the Senate vote on Planned Parenthood is “huge.”
“Just two months ago, experts were telling me that getting a vote in the Senate would be impossible, and I shouldn’t even hope for it,” said Hawkins in a letter to supporters. And although the GOP was forced to abandon the effort to defund Planned Parenthood in the yearly budget, Hawkins suggested that the intensity of the fight over the issue was nonetheless a good sign.
“Think about this,” she wrote. “Our efforts were so effective that the disagreements over Planned Parenthood funding between the pro-life House and pro-abortion Senate leadership almost caused a government shutdown.”
Political analysts have widely agreed in the aftermath of the budget deadlock that Speaker Boehner and the GOP were largely the winners, forcing the Obama administration to accept deeper cuts and other provisions despite a position of political disadvantage.
The GOP also convinced the administration to allow a provision in the budget itself to stop taxpayer funding for abortions in the District of Columbia - a victory for hundreds of unborn lives that would otherwise have been killed with taxpayer funds during the final months of FY2011
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Final vote - nays win by 1 vote.
Sad to say, but they will not abandoned Harry Reid and the RATS power brokers.
You know how they love to have their phones/faxes/mail/emails go crazy! [ /sarcasm off ]
I still say we should show them the size of the fight in the dog, not the size of the dog... To me it matters...
In the the military, it is all up training and tuning up for the real thing... In 2012, after the elections, we might get enough control to do what is needed to be done.
Bread and circuses.
I predict that, with our current, gutless Squeaker of the House, nothing positive will come of it . . . lots of bluster and blah blah, but NOTHING will change.
Nothing will change until Boner is removed . . . once a RINO, forever a RINO! Any bets????
You may as well write a letter to Santa.
I would have preferred letting the shut down happen.
However, this is a great test to see who the RINOs are, and also which Democrats are not necessarily completely on the plantation.
They want to hurry and get the vote out of the way well before the next election.
Planned Parenthood gets plenty of funding from other sources, including many states. They don’t really need it from the Feds and they’re already running a galaxy-sized debt. So there’s no reason for the Federal government to give Planned Parenthood a dime.
But it is still a chance for us to express our views.
The public needs to be informed about some things... Tea Party, Tea Party Express, real conservatives and folks here at Freerepublic.com can try to education folks -- if it is by email -- Facebook -- this forum -- whatever.
The liberal media is squashing info on Obamacare and Planned Parenthood. I say we fight, and even if we lose, we still fight.
Something Saint Paul once said about running the race until the end...
And he and most of the apostles died pretty rough deaths... For the faith...
This is TOTALLY in the Democrats’ favor, as the RINO’s will vote against de-funding, to pander to their voterbase, and the Dem’s will all vote “NO”, to show they’re “pro-women”, aka, FOR Baby-Killing.
He pushed it through the House already. This is a Senate vote.
I agree. And those we are on the plantation, we can give them a piece of our mind with phone calls, faxes, emails...
Don’t you dare touch their holiest sacrament - abortion - or you’ll incur their wrath. Blah!!!
Very interesting . . . Maybe I judged too early . . .
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