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On the recordSeptember 17, 2024
first, I am so grateful to be here with colleagues who care deeply about protecting our reproductive freedoms and supporting families all across America. I want to thank Senator Patty Murray, who has been our leader on this for many years. It is just incredible to me that in 2024, we are standing here even having to talk about this. It is really incredible. I just want to take us back to it because this Congress, Republicans have had 16 chances to protect reproductive freedom--over 16 chances-- and every time, they have voted no. So today, once again, they block a bill to protect access to IVF for thousands of American families. Now, we had this vote before, and then the former President said he changed his mind and he wanted to make IVF free and he wanted to force insurance companies to cover IVF. I thought, well, that is great. Let's come together in a bipartisan way to be able to move forward and protect this really important part of reproductive freedom. So we bring the bill up again. Now, I assume that the former President was on the phone all last night calling our colleagues, calling all of our Republican colleagues--I mean, like he did for his effort to block and kill the bipartisan border security bill. When he wanted to make sure that didn't go forward and he had an issue to run on, he was burning up the phones. Well, given what he said to the American people about his now support for IVF, I assume he was burning up the phones last night.…
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Debbie Stabenow
Democratic · Michigan

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