Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

With Reporting By Ryan Grim

One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and replace it with a version resembling that passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday. And, in an interview with the Huffington Post, the California Democrat predicted that pro-choice forces in the Senate would keep that from happening.

"If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart compromise, then I think at that point they would need to have 60 votes to do it," Boxer said. "And I believe in our Senate we can hold it."

"It is a much more pro-choice Senate than it has been in a long time," she added. "And it is much more pro-choice than the House."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/10/boxer-senate-has-votes-to_n_352064.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. They don't have the votes for a strong Public Option

aka Rockefeller, but they have the votes for this. Never ceases to surprise me what they will and will not support over there.

[musette_sf]

2. Looks like I wasn't the only irate constituent

who fired off email to Sen Boxer last Sunday. I would have terminated my monthly Be A Boxer donations, had she not stood up against this attempt at even more Christo-fascist oppression of and discrimination against US Citizens.

[emulatorloo]

3. rec

[tabasco]

4. Good news. n/t

[myrna minx]

5. K&R! n.t

[BumRushDaShow]

6. K&R

:kick:

[euphoria12leo]

7. K & R

I guess Claire Mccaskill heard from her angry constituents who know the Stupak amendment is stupid and wondered what the heck was she thinking
when jumped out there defending the amendment.


:kick:

[Odin2005]

8. GOOD!

[defendandprotect]

9. k i c k

[Vidar]

10. K&R