Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused McConnell of wasting the chamber's time on 'legislation that is purely an attack on women's health care.'
WASHINGTON – Two longstanding abortion measures failed to advance on the Senate floor Tuesday after being introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Neither measure was expected to get the 60 votes needed to advance past the initial procedural hurdle."Today, every senator will be able to take a clear moral stand," McConnell said Tuesday morning on the Senate floor. "We’ll have the chance to proceed to common sense legislation that would move our nation closer to the international mainstream with respect to defending innocent human life.
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