Victory!

Senate rejects anti-choice health care amendment.

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12 Responses

  1. 1
    Melissa 12.8.2009 at 8:02 pm |

    Goodbye, passage in the House

  2. 2
    Melissa 12.8.2009 at 8:03 pm |

    I think the founders came up with the House of Representatives as some kind of cruel joke on future generations

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    jemand 12.8.2009 at 8:15 pm |

    is there a list of who voted for and against? I want to see what my senators did.

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    Jez 12.8.2009 at 8:42 pm |

    http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/senate/1/369

    The Democrats who switched sides were all men, and the Republicans, both women. I don’t think anyone saw this coming…

  5. 5
    jemand 12.8.2009 at 9:14 pm |

    Good, both my senators voted against it. They get “thank you” emails lol.

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    jemand 12.8.2009 at 9:15 pm |

    or, against the Nelson amendment, for the “tabling.” Confusing, slightly.

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    DireSloth 12.8.2009 at 9:17 pm |

    Yes! Little do those foolish lawmakers know, they have given us, the evil pro-babykilling agenda, free reign to break into the houses of random pregnant women and force them to have abortions on the spot! Mwahahaha! *Rubs hands together gleefully*

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    libdevil 12.8.2009 at 11:00 pm |

    What have we come to when preserving the Hyde amendment is a great liberal victory?

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    Erica A 12.8.2009 at 11:32 pm |

    I can’t decide whether this is the highlight of my day or whether it was having all my classes canceled tomorrow due to snow! Yay!

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    thetroubleis 12.9.2009 at 8:34 am |

    I need to go write my senators. Yay for not following the party line!

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    Hershele Ostropoler 12.9.2009 at 8:46 am |

    On the other hand, they also killed the public option.

    libdevil, it’s not a great victory, but perhaps it’s a small one. Hyde is no worse than Nelson, after all.

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    Michael Hussey 12.9.2009 at 8:32 pm |

    Ben Nelson has always been anti-choice. Notice he didn’t mention abortion until after the Stupak amendment. Nelson wanted to please his base (health care industry) by killing the public option. I love when Nelson said he now couldn’t vote for the public option. Nelson was saying that before he wrote his amendment. What a hypocrite.

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