The Senate will act “in the coming weeks” to counteract the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said on Monday.
“We’re going to do something about the Hobby Lobby [decision] we need to correct,” he said, also mentioning the highway bill, manufacturing legislation and Export-Import bank reauthorization as issues that the Senate will address in the coming weeks.
Democrats, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), are weighing legislative options to fix the contraceptive coverage gap created by the Court’s ruling, which lets closely held corporations with religious owners opt out of the birth control coverage requirement under Obamacare.
A legislative “fix” is very unlikely to pass because Republicans, who strongly support the ruling, have the votes to filibuster it.
S’okay. Make them dinosaurs vote against contraception, for god’s sake. Sooner or later they are going to lose an awful lot of votes.
A legislative “fix” is very unlikely to pass because Republicans, who strongly support the ruling, have the votes to filibuster it.
That’s fine. Make 'em vote on it anyway. Make 'em vote on killing more jobs and local infrastructure. More things for D’s to run on come fall.
“A legislative fix is very unlikely to pass because Republicans, who are in the minority, still manage to run the place anyway.”
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Pass or fail, voting “no” is one of those things that could come back to bite a whole bunch of Republicans firmly in the ass. There are several blue state Republicans up for reelection in 2016 and voting in favor of allowing bosses to make women’s healthcare decisions probably won’t be popular then either. In the meantime, maybe the failure of this legislation will wake up some college kids who’d otherwise planned to day-drink on Election Day.
Exactly how many are those votes again?