Posted on 12/28/2020 3:40:38 AM PST by xomething
The decades-old measure, named after an Illinois GOP lawmaker, limits the use of federal funds.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats have spent two years passing government funding legislation without picking a fight over abortion, but with President Donald Trump leaving office, party leaders say 2021 will be different.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who is set to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said next year the House will eliminate the so-called Hyde Amendment, a decades-old policy that prohibits federal programs like Medicaid from paying for abortions.
“This is the last year,” DeLauro said at a Dec. 8 hearing about the adverse effects of the Hyde Amendment. “The time has come in this current moment to reckon with the norm, with the status quo.”
“The Hyde Amendment is a discriminatory policy,” she said, arguing that it puts politicians between a woman and her doctor and is particularly harmful to rural and low-income women.
But that is guaranteed to face Republican opposition, Senate Appropriations Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said.
“The Republican caucus would resist it,” Shelby told NBC News. “We've had the Hyde Amendment a long time. And I think it's pretty clearly embedded in the fabric of our legislation. I support the Hyde Amendment.”
The conflicting positions preview a clash over the polarizing issue of abortion next year when the government will have to be funded again.
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Sounds like they already know who the new Senators from GA are going to be.
Government of, by and for the people was another lifetime ago.
More voter fraud?
Thank you Morgana.
The Democrats know that there isn’t one issue that the Republicans will circle the wagons and defend to the death. With a feckless, cowardly Senate and Supreme Court the radical left will pass anything they want.
Sounds like they already know who the new Senators from GA are going to be.
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The CCP knows.
DeLauro is loathsome.
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