Elizabeth Warren: The government shutdown was over birth control

Published July 15, 2014 11:00pm ET



Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Tuesday blamed last October’s government shutdown on Republicans wanting to deny women access to birth control.

No really. Warren said this on the Senate floor while defending the Democrats’ deceptively titled “Women’s Health Protection Act.”

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