In observance of International Women’s Day, all 12 Democratic women senators sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker John Boehner calling on him to rescind his pledge to push forward with efforts to restrict women’s access to contraception after the Blunt amendment was defeated in the Senate. The senators’ letter comes in the wake of Boehner’s public pledge to continue efforts to limit birth control access in the House, where a similar version of the Blunt amendment has over...
Just days after announcing her retirement due to the partisanship of the Senate, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe helped kill a conservative measure which would have restricted the availability of contraception. Her Maine colleague, referred to as Snowe’s moderate “sister,” voted to support the bill, however. Snowe became the lone Republican Thursday to vote against Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)’s amendment, which would have exempted nearly all employers from President Obama’s new rule mandating coverage of birth control for women. The...
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa chaired a hearing on Capitol Hill today on religious freedom and the new mandate that health insurers cover contraception. As the hearing got under way, an argument broke out over Democrats could add a female witness to the all-male panel. “Where are the women?” the minority Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., asked early in the hearing. She criticized the Republican committee chairman, Rep. Darrel Issa, for wanting to “roll back the fundamental rights of women to a time when the government thought...
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