senator robert menendez didn t vote because he is a defendant in a corruption trial in new york city. two republican senators voted for the right to contraception act. senator susan collins and senator lisa murkowski. this senate is the anti- democratic constitution where a majority vote does not rule most of the time. 51 votes is not enough to protect contraception in the senate today because the bill made it clear a 60-vote threshold in order to pass the senate. today, of course, senate republicans had the chance to vote to protect a key personal liberty. access to contraception. senator markey s bill is simple but it has become necessary since the maga supreme court and donald trump overturned roe and jeopardized repractive rights for millions and millions of americans. today, thanks to these brutal and downright medieval attacks,
republican parties on this issue and we are going to begin today. the clarification of whose side each of the as parties is on the senator markey, a polling shows that about a third of americans consider contraception a threatened right now, right now, likely potentially to be overturned by the us supreme court as well. that s about ten points higher than back in 2022. and roe v. wade was still he when he picked his three supreme court justices. and that s the promise to donald trump and a right-wing house and senate republican controlled maga congress will
republicans opposed it so we know that republicans are going to block it when i brought it out in 2022 onto the senate floor, the republicans objected when i brought it out in 2023, they objected. so now here in 2024, we re going to force the vote and the same thing is true we re in the house. the democrats are going to try to force a vote over there. but i think the maga republicans had just going to block even having a vote another white house is supporting what you re doing. senator markey, thanks for joining us. thank you. wealth and still to come, president biden is in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d-day. meanwhile, a controversial the report zeros in on the president s age and memory. stay with us lot lots going on urine. the cnn newsroom the assignments are going off and bang the tornado here i m thinking, i m going to die. and i thought violin earth with liev schreiber sunday at nine on cnn the future is not
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