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  • Senior Dem 'confident' Stupak amendment will be stripped

    11/09/2009 9:29:40 AM PST · by MaestroLC · 36 replies · 1,854+ views
    The Hill ^ | November 9, 2009 | By Michael O'Brien
    A top House Democrat said Monday she's "confident" that a conference committee will strip language in the House health bill on taxpayer funding for abortion. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats' chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-choice lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in the House health bill that bars federal funding from going to subsidize abortions. "I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won't be there," Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on MSNBC. "And I think we're all going to be...