Posted on 04/12/2014 5:04:20 PM PDT by Libloather
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., scheduled a Friday session that won't have any votes, rejecting Republican and Democratic requests that he allow a vote on a bill that would allow rape kits to be processed more quickly.
“Debbie Smith is an extraordinary woman and an effective advocate," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told the Washington Examiner. "She's personally asked me, John Cornyn and others to pass this critically important legislation that bears her name, and it's deeply disappointing that the majority leader is blocking it from reaching the president's desk. I will fight to get this done for the sake of Debbie and sexual assault victims everywhere.”
Smith didn't just persuade McConnell to push for the bill. Rep. Carolyn Maloney wanted the Senate to take up the bill when the House passed it earlier this week.
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Harry Reid’s “War on Women”. Since he is a frontman for Obamie the Commie, it’s also “Obama’s War on Women”.
Let’s see what NOW has to say, some day, some year, some century from now.
I guess my problem is that we seem to “need” laws for every aspect of everything. All laws have some form of unintended (or even intended) consequences. I wish the hell that our “lawmakers” weren’t so damn active with so much bullcrap that nobody even knows how many laws there are or when one might be arrested for “breaking” one of them.
Remember, the Democrats unified to support a rapist and sink stainer, Bill Clinton.
Now they want his “wife” to become the next Oval Office Occupant.
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