Tag: Abortion

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats hold a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

For Democrats, words from a famous human trafficking victim

Washington Examiner · March 19, 2015 9:00 am

Bishop Richard Malone, bishop of Buffalo, speaks to Catholics after distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday during Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013.

Washington Secrets

U.S. Protestant population falls below 50% for first time

Paul Bedard · March 18, 2015 3:17 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Senate schedules round-two vote on stalled trafficking bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 18, 2015 2:17 pm

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will not schedule a vote on Loretta Lynch until the trafficking bill passes. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images File)

Senate GOP: No Loretta Lynch vote until Democrats quit filibustering

Susan Ferrechio · March 17, 2015 4:53 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said a planned vote this week on the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch is now uncertain because of the gridlock on the human trafficking bill. (AP Photo)

Democrats block trafficking bill over abortion language

Susan Ferrechio · March 17, 2015 3:57 pm

New laws to limit abortions

New laws to limit abortions

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 16, 2015 9:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will move to end debate Tuesday on legislation that would establish a $30 million restitution fund for victims of human trafficking. But Democrats are threatening to block the legislation through the use of the filibuster. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Showdown vote coming over abortion provision in Senate human trafficking bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 12, 2015 8:11 pm

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has threatened to block the bill if the language isn't taken out. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Democrats so deep in abortion politics they’d tank a bipartisan human trafficking bill

Ashe Schow · March 12, 2015 7:05 pm

From left, Democratic leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate stuck on human trafficking bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 11, 2015 9:01 pm

"[T]he bill that is on the floor today has a provision in it which we were told would not be included," said Durbin, who co-sponsored the bill. (AP File Photo)

Democrats threaten to block their own bill after finding abortion language

Susan Ferrechio · March 11, 2015 9:00 am

Abortion rights advocates had found an unlikely ally in Gov. Tomblin, who has historically said he opposes abortion.Â (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)

West Virginia passes ‘fetal pain’ law

Paige Winfield Cunningham · March 7, 2015 10:00 am

"I come from a land where the voters pick candidates â¦ on God, guns, gays and abortion," said State Rep. Jessica Farrar, the Democratic Caucus Leader in the Texas House of Representatives. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Texas Dem: Texans vote on ‘God, guns, gays and abortion’

Jason Russell · March 6, 2015 5:38 pm