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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnly AFTER Backlash from Voters does Murkowski Have Regrets Voting For Blunt Contraception Bill
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Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski told a local newspaper yesterday that she regrets her vote for the so-called Blunt amendment, the GOPs alternative to President Obamas rule requiring employers to provide contraception coverage as part of their health care insurance plans. Under the amendment, which the Senate tabled with the help of just one Republican, employers would have been empowered to deny coverage of health services to their employees on the basis of personal moral objections.
I have never had a vote Ive taken where I have felt that I let down more people that believed in me, Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News Julia OMalley, claiming that the amendments language went overboard:
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Murkowski called the Blunt Amendment a messaging amendment that both sides know is not going to pass and said Republicans didnt have enough sense to get off of it. She also condemned Rush Limbaughs deragatory comments about a Georgetown law student testifying in favor of greater access to birth control. I think women when they hear mouthpieces like that say things like that they get concerned and they look to policymakers, she said. Thats where I feel like I have let these women down is that I have not helped to give these women the assurance they need that their health care rights are protected.
Before the vote, ThinkProgress repeatedly called Murkowskis office to ask how she would vote on the Blunt measure, but her office did not return our requests for comment. Retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was the only Republican to oppose the measure.
I have never had a vote Ive taken where I have felt that I let down more people that believed in me, Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News Julia OMalley, claiming that the amendments language went overboard:
...
Murkowski called the Blunt Amendment a messaging amendment that both sides know is not going to pass and said Republicans didnt have enough sense to get off of it. She also condemned Rush Limbaughs deragatory comments about a Georgetown law student testifying in favor of greater access to birth control. I think women when they hear mouthpieces like that say things like that they get concerned and they look to policymakers, she said. Thats where I feel like I have let these women down is that I have not helped to give these women the assurance they need that their health care rights are protected.
Before the vote, ThinkProgress repeatedly called Murkowskis office to ask how she would vote on the Blunt measure, but her office did not return our requests for comment. Retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was the only Republican to oppose the measure.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/06/438394/murkowski-regrets-voting-for-blunts-religious-conscience-measure-i-have-let-these-women-down/
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Only AFTER Backlash from Voters does Murkowski Have Regrets Voting For Blunt Contraception Bill (Original Post)
SunsetDreams
Mar 2012
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she's a hack. I was one who left messages in Kenai and Washington. Self Loathing dipshit.
roguevalley
Mar 2012
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roguevalley
(40,656 posts)1. she's a hack. I was one who left messages in Kenai and Washington. Self Loathing dipshit.
markpkessinger
(8,392 posts)2. A coward in the mould of Snowe n/t