In a late-afternoon vote, the effort by Republicans to strip federal funding from abortion-provider Planned Parenthood was blocked by Senate Democrats in a 53 to 46 vote that failed to meet the three fifths majority required to move forward.
The 60 votes were needed to end a Democrat filibuster. Even if that had happened, even if the bill passed the Senate and the House, the White House had already promised to veto it.
Republican lawmakers have already vowed that the fight over Planned Parenthood is just beginning The next step will be to try to defund abortion provider Planned Parenthood through the budget process, a move that is already generating a war of words over a government shutdown.
Though mostly along party lines, the vote did have some crossovers. Democrat Senators Joe Donnelly Joe Manchin voted for the bill. Manchin had this to say about the defunding effort:
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Not much to say. The government has made it clear that the people are an inconvenience. As they also have made it clear that their fear of God is not a consideration. Voting has consequences but so does silence in the face of evil. And make no mistake: this is evil.
David DeGerolamo
what more proof do we need anylonger about the demon-rat party and what they really stand for. every one of them are murderers along with rino republic-rats are all vicious abettors of killers. all of them must be hanged at some point for there heinous crimes along with the vicious Marxist bolshevik judges who are also abettors in there crimes.