Posted on 08/23/2018 9:12:34 PM PDT by Phillyred
Republican leaders in the Senate stepped in Wednesday to block Sen. Rand Paul’s latest effort to defund Planned Parenthood, an issue popular with the GOP base that some say could help energize voters for the midterm elections.
The Kentucky senator late last week signaled that he would offer an amendment to the appropriations bill funding the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, the relevant legislative vehicle for the Planned Parenthood funding ban. Supporters said that it would need just a majority to win.
Late Wednesday, Paul moved to add his amendment to an opening on a so-called “amendment tree” which has limited spaces for pending amendments.
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WASHINGTON SECRETS GOP blocks Rand Paul’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood by Paul Bedard | August 23, 2018 10:08 AM Print this article Donald Trump President Trump and his ally Sen. Rand Paul want to wring funding from Planned Parenthood and other federally funded family planning clinics and that could serve as a rallying cry for conservative voters. Susan Walsh/AP Republican leaders in the Senate stepped in Wednesday to block Sen. Rand Paul’s latest effort to defund Planned Parenthood, an issue popular with the GOP base that some say could help energize voters for the midterm elections.
The Kentucky senator late last week signaled that he would offer an amendment to the appropriations bill funding the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, the relevant legislative vehicle for the Planned Parenthood funding ban. Supporters said that it would need just a majority to win.
Late Wednesday, Paul moved to add his amendment to an opening on a so-called “amendment tree” which has limited spaces for pending amendments.
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Don't become a lobbyist, Paul Ryan Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads But before he was able to make his move, leaders worried that Paul’s amendment is too controversial to touch filled the open spot on the amendment tree, meaning he will have to wait until another space opens up.
In its place, according to insiders, was a placeholder amendment that changed funding in a program by $1. “It’s only purpose was to block Paul,” said a Senate insider.
The GOP leadership has the power to unblock the amendment tree and allow a vote on Paul's plan.
President Trump has proposed cutting funds to Planned Parenthood. The agency gets federal funds for its women’s health care but not abortion, though polls suggest that Republicans want the money train ended because it does abortion or refers to others that do.
GOP-e needs to be flushed down the toilet!
Vote vote vote. Vote vote vote. Red, red, red. Your life depends on it. (Quoting various posters.)
oh, look. rand paul drawing attention to himself. how unusual.
I’m sure he’ll be on msnbc tomorrow giving comfort to the enemy.
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There is absolutely nothing controversial about defunding Planned Barrenhood for Republicans.
*** Suburban women want to keep Planned Parenthood. It’s vital to their lives, literally. ***
vi·tal
adjective
1. absolutely necessary or important; essential.
synonyms: essential, of the essence, critical, crucial, key, indispensable, integral, all-important, imperative, mandatory, requisite, urgent, pressing, burning, compelling, high-priority, life-and-death, of the utmost importance, utmost
It’s what they want.
LET GOD JUDGE
Focus on jobs, jobs, jobs.
BULL! Trump.handled this issue perfectly during the debates. He made these people out to be the ghouls they are.He made THEM defend partial birth abortion. Do NOT give up “social issues”.
MFrs
Sorry for my French..
Suburban conservative = GOPe RINO.
“I’m personally pro-life, but my view is let God judge. It is not our business to find out if someone has an abortion, even if it is taxpayer funded. Yes, it is vile, but that is the changing demographics in America today. Millennial women are trained to be pro-abortion. I’m sorry.
End the abortion talk, talk about jobs, immigration, race.”
God already has made His judgment on this matter.
Stop apologizing while arguing a pro-choice position. Being “personally pro-life” while advocating the acceptance of abortion and tax-payer funding of it is a pro-choice position.
We will NOT stop insisting on the END of these atrocities.
A nation that is hellbent on murdering its babies and molesting and corrupting the children who do live, is a nation that needs to be crushed and demolished to start over with a clean slate.
What happened to “give me liberty or give me death”? There are some things worth fighting for and even dying for.
Our once great nation has become Sodom.
There will be no purely political remedy. Either this nation will experience a revival through repentance, or she will be destroyed, and God will replace her with a remnant of people who fear Him.
The day of reckoning is approaching.
Bull, RINO.
The Deep State is deep into the GOP.
Rand Paul supports Kelli Ward for US Senate in Arizona, not Congresswoman Martha “McCain” McSally. He knows his enemies well.
Why are you surprised by anything the uniparty does?
Candidate Trump ran on a ProLife ticket and one of the biggest aspects of his candidacy was his promise to nominate ProLife judges and defund the business of selling baby body parts and eliminating late term abortions and stopping public funding for the mothers killing their children.
American voters are sick and tired of abortion funding being shoved down our throats by weak amoral politicians and their constituents, like yourself. You’re pushing the old worn out Democrat argument that God has no place in the public sphere.
“A nation that is hellbent on murdering its babies and molesting and corrupting the children who do live, is a nation that needs to be crushed and demolished to start over with a clean slate.”
Undeniably true and we’re living it. It’s time.
The elites of both parties get body parts via Planned ParentHood and very valuable blood
Hebrews 12:8 says those who reject God’s discipline are bastards and not children.
One day the heavenly Father will give the sentence according to His precepts.
Surrender talk.
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