rssBehind Stupak, House Shoots Down Stupak Abortion Amendment
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 11:53 pm
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The Republicans tonight had one last chance to put a wrench in the Democrats’ plans to tweak the Senate health bill via reconciliation. It came in the form of something called a motion to recommit, which effectively represented the one GOP amendment allowed under the rules set for the health care vote. And they chose a doozy: Their amendment was the same abortion language found in the original House-passed bill — language that was inserted upon the insistence of Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, the anti-abortion Democrat who vowed to oppose the bill otherwise.
Republicans, of course, were hoping that the same coalition of anti-abortion Democrats who’d voted for that language the first time around would also support it tonight. Because many Senate Democrats oppose the Stupak provision, attaching it to the reconciliation bill would have threatened that proposal — which, of course, was why the Republicans chose it to begin with.
It didn’t happen.
Behind Stupak, Democrats rallied to defeat the motion to recommit by an easy vote of 232 to 199. Twenty-one Democrats joined every Republican in voting for the measure.
“This motion is really to politicize life,” Stupak said just before the vote, “not to protect life.”
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Comment posted March 22, 2010 @ 4:09 am
You really want my comment?
Ok, Screw the Republican Party! and thank God for our president……
Comment posted March 22, 2010 @ 4:10 am
stupak is a jerk if he thinks a presidential edict will enforce a bill
Comment posted March 22, 2010 @ 4:11 am
Stupak was clearly referring to his own facade of anti-abortion when talking about the “politicizing of life”. If he were for the protecting of life, he would have voted for the amendment.
Comment posted March 22, 2010 @ 4:27 am
Another eleventh hour stunt by the Republicans – and daring to call Stupak a “baby killer”?! I'm not a Democrat. Nor a Republican. I am disappointed in the Republican Party. They controlled both the House and Senate for TWELVE YEARS (1994-2006) and knew full well how health care costs were worsening and impacting our economy and our citizens. They even had the Presidency for six of those twelve years. And for all intents and purposes, they did nothing. Now they are complaining about the current form of health care reform. Well, they brought it upon themselves – if they'd done something about it when they could have, it would not have gotten to this point. Is the reform legislation perfect? Of course not, since everyone would have a different perspective of perfection, but the Republicans allowed the Democrats to shape most of it and get credit for most of it, because they (the Republicans) sat on their duffs for twelve years. Now they are stuck with this, like it or not. They've done a dis-service to their party, their constituents, and their country. And this stunt at the end with the abortion amendment just seems a fitting illustration of the growing perception of them as the Party of Obstruction. They should re-read their Machiavelli…. there's more to THE PRINCE than “the end justifies the means.”
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Comment posted April 9, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
Glad to see Stupack retiring. What a turnaround guy he is……this will follow his name as it should……the anti abortion guy he is not!!!
Comment posted June 27, 2010 @ 9:47 am
Stupak was clearly referring to his own facade of anti-abortion when talking about the “politicizing of life”. If he were for the protecting of life, he would have voted for the amendment.
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