"Who are you gonna believe, me or my voting record?" — Leah Greenberg, when, on June 12, 2024, all 49 US Senators signed a letter saying "We strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF [in vitro fertilization], which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families."
Then, 46 of the signees (who strongly support continued nationwide access to IVF, which has allowed millions of aspiring parents to start and grow their families") voted against advancing a Senate bill that would establish federal protections for IVF (which they strongly support ... Senator Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Collins of Maine voted for the measure, Senator Schmitt of Missouri did not vote ... After the vote, Majority Leader Schumer, Democrat of New York, changed his vote to No -- thus preserving the right under Senate rules to reintroduce the measure at a later date.).
This desire to have it both ways echoes the behavior of Republicans in the House and Senate who voted against the measures that brought the US economy back from the brink in the first two years of the Biden administration but are now taking credit for Infrastructure act money that is currently supporting construction businesses in their states, for Chips and Science act money that is currently attracting huge private-sector investments and creating good-paying jobs for people without college degrees in their states, and Inflation Reduction act money that is currently reducing the costs of medications to the most economically challenged citizens of their states.
If you are represented by elected Republicans in the US Congress, you know, more or less, what they've said — and you know exactly how they voted on all these measures ...
Are you going to believe them, or their voting record?
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https://www.britt.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/6.12.24-IVF-Statement_49.pdf
https://rollcall.com/2024/06/13/senate-falls-short-on-ivf-vote/
https://wapo.st/3z2EOnd
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