Senate Bill to Nullify Hobby Lobby Decision Fails: Legislation Falls Four Votes Short of 60

Wall Street Journal ^ | 07/16/2014 | By KRISTINA PETERSON

[smoothsailing]

Throw her and Begich out. Alaska deserves better than those two Democrat hacks, even though Murkowski masquerades as a Republican at election time.

[ProudChrwm]

Same Triad of Three as usual

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Murkowski masquerades as a Republican at election time.

Murkowski amazingly, WON Alaska’s Senate in 2010 as a WRITE-IN candidate.

[KoRn]

All of these women are screaming for “free” contraceptives.

Where are guys supposed to go for free Viagra, ect? Unlike birth control, those ED medicines cost a small fortune - so I’ve heard. (cough)

[Slings and Arrows]

*snort* Political theater.

[smokingfrog]

So there were 56 fascists who wanted to force people to choose between their beliefs and obeying an unconstitutional law.

Apparently so. The ability of a woman to kill her unborn child with no restrictions whatsoever cannot be denied, according to them.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Even if passed I’m pretty sure SCOTUS would have done the same thing, except this time on 1st Amendment grounds.

I'm not so sure about that. Remember, Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith.

[redgolum]

Election year games.

[SunkenCiv]

> Senate Democrats’ effort to push back against the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision stalled Wednesday when their bill to restore employers’ responsibility to provide contraception coverage under the health law was defeated on a procedural vote.

IOW, they were wasting the taxpayers’ and their colleagues’ time — the SCOTUS has spoken, the Demagogic Party has lost, and the only way to “reinstate” what the court has struck down is to amend the Constitution.

Remember, they tried to do that too, in the past couple of weeks.

[Nextrush]

A rigged election year test vote to be used in election campaigns.

[anoldafvet]

By my reckoning, one rat voted no. Who was it?

[upchuck]

Can we please get real here. Tell what REALLY happened...

Senate Democrats' effort to push back against the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision stalled Wednesday when their bill to restore employers' responsibility to provide contraception abortifacients coverage under the health law was defeated on a procedural vote.

Many may be surprised to learn that Hobby Lobby offered/offers contraception coverage to their employees. They just didn't want to pay for abortifacients for their employees.

[Cheerio]

Anyone betting on whether dirty harry changes the cloture rule again?

[Salvation]

CATHOLIC LEAGUE

FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Bid To Kill Religious Rights Fails

July 16, 2014

Bill Donohue comments on the Senate vote held today on the Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act:
 
The assault on religious liberty lost today as the Senate failed to achieve the 60 votes necessary to advance this bill. While the outcome is welcome, the fact that a majority of Senators, almost all Democrats, are still bent on eviscerating the religious liberty rights of Americans is very disturbing. It seems they will stop at nothing to trample on our First Amendment freedoms.
 
The vote is being widely misreported by the media as a vote on contraception. It was not. The issue is abortion, not contraception. All four of the procedures that plaintiffs for Hobby Lobby cited in their brief involved at least the possibility that a pregnancy might be terminated; prevention and termination are not identical. Moreover, this company does not object to providing contraceptives. Ergo, attempts to override the high court's decision has nothing to do with contraception.
 
The lust for abortion is sickening, and the war on religion is equally contemptuous. Outside the Capitol today there were anti-Catholic protesters flagging their signs, "KEEP YOUR ROSARIES OFF MY OVARIES." The bigots were from Code Pink, the far left-wing band of activists. But we won't look for Nancy Pelosi to condemn them, even though she loves to tout what a "devout Catholic" she is.

Phone: 212-371-3191
E-mail: pr@catholicleague.org

 

[Theodore R.]

How did Susan Collins vote? ME is still for her, at least for now.

[Theodore R.]

I wonder what percent of the American people these 56 “senators” represent? Would it be 60 percent or more? Probably

[Theodore R.]

I see Susan Collins failed on this issue; she knows how much ME people love abortion. Many are performed on Congress Street in Portland.

[Eleutheria5]

Gosh. What a sad day. Now randy couples who don’t want to have kids might have to shell out for condoms from their own pocket. Fascism triumphs./s

[Laslo Fripp]

Probably Harry Reid, so he can bring it up again. Procedural maneuver.

[Carl Vehse]

Three Republicans supported the bill: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mark Kirk of Illinois.

AKA, Evil Supporters of the Democrat Death Cult.

Traitors all!