Posted on 03/30/2017 10:33:00 AM PDT by ColdOne
The GOP was forced to keep a procedural vote open for just over an hour after two Republicans senators, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski and Maine's Susan Collins, voted against moving ahead on the measure. During that time, the GOP got Pence to the Senate to break a 50-50 tie and cast the deciding vote.
He previously broke a tie on the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be education secretary.
A final vote on the bill is expected later Thursday, when Pence's vote likely will be needed again.
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Too bad PP wasn’t around for their mothers to abort these two beeches.
I agree. Alaska's other senator, Dan Sullivan is a pretty solid conservative and there's no reason why a state that Republican should have a senator like Lisa Murkowski. Even her dad was a conservative when he was senator. As for Maine, that's going to be tough but shouldn't be impossible.
I couldn’t agree more on Fox News’ website being an awful place to read articles.
I don’t care how many times I click on the “Do not auto play video” in their video player, it pops out of the main page and goes to the lower right side of my screen and starts playing the video.
...and what about Bevins? Prebus said he would support him and didn’t...what about the others? yeah right...
There isn’t ONE person back in the ‘swamp’ other than President Trump that isn’t bought and paid for!!!
It is the worse. I have Ghostery and that helps most sites. Not Fox.
“The GOP was forced to keep a procedural vote open for just over an hour after two Republicans senators, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins, voted against moving ahead on the measure”
Democrats are actually the majority in the Senate. With Collins, Murkowski, McCain, Graham and Flake, Democrats have 53 Senators.
While Trump is threatening conservatives, we have real opponents in the ranks who deserve to be primaried.
Would be easier for those who don’t have time during the day to read the whole article if we quote what’s important so this is it:
“The bill erases a regulation imposed by former President Barack Obama shortly before he left office that lets states deny family planning funds to organizations only if they are incapable of providing those services. Some states have passed laws in recent years denying the money to groups that provide abortions.”
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