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House Democrats unveiled a new plan on Tuesday to attempt to force a vote on contraceptive protections — or at least to get Republicans in their chamber on record on the issue before November’s elections.
Democrats in the lower chamber on Tuesday announced a plan to try to force a vote on legislation to protect access to contraception.
Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) unveiled a discharge petition on the Right to Contraception Act, a day ahead of a Senate vote on companion legislation and three weeks before the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that ended the constitutional right to an abortion.
House Democrats are launching a discharge petition on Tuesday aimed at forcing a vote on legislation to protect access to contraception, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
Why it matters: It's part of a broader push by Democrats to put abortion rights, contraception and fertility services at the political fore as the 2024 election heats up.
When House Democrats narrowly lost their majority in 2022, they did not expect to be the party that saved a Republican speaker from banishment.
But in the topsy-turvy world of today’s House, Democrats on Wednesday evening rode to the rescue of a conservative congressman turned speaker and cemented their status as co-rulers of a deeply dysfunctional lower chamber in the process.
After failing to move a GOP-led Congress last year to reup federal assistance for childcare centers, US Representative Katherine Clark is turning to the business community for help in making her case.
House Democratic leadership said in a joint statement Tuesday that they would vote to help save Speaker Mike Johnson if far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., moves to oust him.
These parents are usually fighting to get their kids to take a nap. But instead, they’re taking the fight to Congress, in an event they call Strolling Thunder.
“We really want you to think babies,” Lorna Harris-Fisher, Massachusetts Strolling Thunder Family said.
“We are doing the hardest job possible, under the most difficult condition,” Cruz Bueno, Rhode Island Strolling Thunder Family said.
Parents and kids came to this rally on Capitol Hill, to rattle lawmakers.
Orlando’s leaders and gun violence survivors met Wednesday with Congressman Maxwell Frost to discuss the city’s Community Violence Intervention program — and the promise it’s shown to reduce shootings and gun homicides in its first year.
The program, known also as CVI, aims to stop violent incidents before they escalate through mediation and resources to get at the heart of confrontations. It initially targeted five neighborhoods citywide, enlisting influential residents known as “Neighborhood Change Associates” as part of the solution.
An Orlando program that helps at-risk youth needs more money to keep saving lives and preventing violence.
The city of Orlando recently voted to expand the Community Violence Intervention program, which is focused on reducing gun violence.
Congressman Maxwell Frost and Democratic Whip Congresswoman Katherine Clark heard from people behind the mission at a roundtable discussion Wednesday.
Members of Congress are devastated by the passing of their colleague U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J., who died on Wednesday at the age of 65. Payne’s death comes after he had been hospitalized for several weeks following a cardiac arrest episode earlier this month.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in a statement that the New Jersey lawmaker is leaving “behind a legacy of relentless determination in the face of adversity.”