Senate Democrats Push Mitch McConnell To The Breaking Point By Refusing To Back Down

By: Jason Easley
Thursday, April, 16th, 2015, 12:17 pm   
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Senate Democrats sent a strong message to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by refusing to back down on their demand that anti-abortion language be removed from the human trafficking bill.
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In remarks on the Senate floor, Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said:
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The most important question for a party in power is simply: "Can you govern?" Or in other words, "Can you steer this ship? Can you pilot this great nation of ours?" We are just over 100 days into this Republican-controlled Congress, and it is already clear that the Republican Leader and his side are not up to the task.

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For evidence, look no further than Republican's botched handling of the human trafficking bill before the Senate. The Majority Leader and the Assistant Majority Leader took a good, bipartisan piece of legislation and steered it right into the rocks.
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What has taken place on the direction of human trafficking is an effort to obfuscate, to hide the real purpose of the legislation. We all agree that human trafficking should stop. With this legislation we have before us is a step in the right direction and we want to support that legislation and our friend the republican leader says all ire complaining about is a sentence or so. That's why people spend all these years going to law school and taking these contracts courses. That's why my friend, Assistant Republican Leader who served as a trial court judge, a Texas Supreme Court justice, he dealt during his entire career with lawyers coming to him talking about sentences in a contract or sentences on a piece of legislation. That's what this is all about. And we should eliminate those sentences that here allow Hyde to be expanded to non-taxpayer money. We cannot allow that to happen.
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