this is women s health. reproductive part of us is a part of our health and obviously young women. so how can they say that we re not going to be doing contraception or we re not going to be doing family planning and so people focus on the most extreme cases in terms of terminating a pregnancy. but what is at risk is the discretion of a woman to make judgments about the size and timing of her family. it is respect to the judgment women about what is good for them, for their families, for their health, which is important to their families. i think that we have to the reality is that people in our country do practice birth control and use contraception. i don t know whether my colleagues need a lesson in the birds and the bees. i just really don t get it but they don t get the fact that i am so open in my comments about
representatives there. you look at a state, for instance, like south carolina. it isn t only expanding voting i.d. laws. they re making it difficult to vote. they re discussing in south carolina a bill that would make it harder for disabled people to vote, that would essentially say if you re disabled, you have to get a note from your doctor to get an absentee ballot. there are all sorts of measures going on. i think we re going to have a long, hot summer about the culture wars in many ways. that s what this voting rights act is about. you mentioned some of the signs of bipartisanship we are seeing, but we ve also seen republicans lead the charge in the last few years on a lot of these new restrictive voter i.d. measures. so just where is the party going to go with this issue? right. there s a lot riding on the republican party, too, at this point as the party trying to bring more minority voters and candidates into the fold. they can t ignore this incredible debate we re having in
lately. you have, i think, some in the house who believe that immigration will encourage further demographic changes and that may not be good for them politically. if we can see some leadership from members of the republican party, some of whom i disagree with on a lot of issues, but, you know, who do seem to recognize this is the right thing to do for the country, that eventually we ll get something passed out of the house. what kind of behind the scenes is maneuvers do you think are taking place to ensure that someone in the house will step up and be that leader that he s describing? i m not sure what those maneuvers are, but i can tell you with some certainty those maneuvers are probably very tortured. part of the problem for these house republicans, even where there are measures they would support in terms of a peace meal approach, such as a measure for border security, there are things they would support. but the problem is that they are
the country. they certainly knew that was going to happen. going to directly latino voters. do you think that s an effective strategy? yes, certainly from a policy strategy. it re-enforces just what the positions are. it also points to something else. the republicans, meanwhile, in spanish language media are very absent. since june 27th when they announced this senate bill, marco rubio has not really been speaking out on the issue. he s really receded is perhaps because he s afraid of the backlash. meanwhile, there was a poll out monday that shows across all age groups, latino voters definitely trend democratic. that should be worrisome for the republican party. well, it should be. you mentioned there was also this concern that it could lead to an up or down vote on the path to citizenship. that s why they re having these tortured conversations. it s only going to get worse because, you know, we re seeing
we have a clip of that. let s take a listen and we can talk about how that struck you. president obama has launched a war on our second amendment rights. he s launched a war on our religious freedom. he s used the irs to launch a war on our freedom of speech. and he s used the epa to launch a war on wyoming s ranchers, farmers, and energy industry. she didn t talk about enzi a whole lot. she didn t even mention him by name. she pent a lot of time talking about obama. do you think this is going to resonate? yeah, they despise obama in wyoming. it s the level of the rhetoric that s striking to me. it s taking this rank partisanship that s hurting this country and ratcheting it up even further. i don t like when democrats talk about war on women. i don t like war. we don t want war in our domestic politics. to say obama s war on, you know, wyoming, this is really, really not a good thing for our political discourse. i was also struck in her statement, she talked about how