House conservatives pushed Republican leaders to attach a provision to the government funding bill that would let some employers opt out of covering contraception for employees.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) opposed the language and Democrats ultimately kept Republicans from including it in the funding measure, congressional sources told Politico.
Reps. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) urging him to keep such provisions out of the measure to fund the government.
“This kind of political maneuvering – using must-pass legislation to accomplish a ‘wish list’ of one faction of Congress and risking a government shutdown – is precisely the kind of behavior the American people detest. We urge you in the strongest possible terms to keep any appropriations legislation considered before the close of the 113th Congress free from ideological policy riders,” they wrote.
Why is this crap news? That’s what these coward Republicants do. it’s what they live for.
The GOP idolizes the rugged individual…corporation.
OOOhhh, another sternly worded letter to Boehner from the Democrats. I’m sure that means we will never see such shenanigans again… Quit with the letters and petitions etc. Get in front of a camera and make some noise, EVERY SINGLE TIME they do this.
I can’t believe what cowards the Republicans are. They are afraid of my little snatch. It hasn’t EVER hurt anyone. It is quiet and behaves itself in public… What’s there to legislate?
I would like to see a law that says no riders can be added that does not address the specific bill it is being attached to. Of course, I’d like a Ferrari and a pony, and I have better chance of getting those than of Congress policing itself.