GOP struggles for response to Obama’s transgender rule

By Susan Ferrechio

Published May 20, 2016 4:01am ET

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GOP struggles for response to Obama’s transgender rule — "We write laws, and we need to respect the president that he disagrees with us, but that is why the courts would be involved," said House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

Republicans are outraged at the Obama administration’s directive expanding the rights of transgendered students in public schools, but they don’t yet know what to do about it.

Other than the introduction of a bill sponsored by Rep. Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., which would block the federal government from withholding funding from non-compliant schools, Republicans made no legislative move to stop the new rule this week.

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