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Anti-abortion bill from this crop of house republicans. why do you think they got 222 cosponsors. what does this symbolize for so many of the house members? >> they all march in line. the leadership requires them to do so. you saw some of the republicans are resigning because if you dare to buck the leadership, you wont get the committee you want, and you will be punished. and the good news is that its not just the right to life people who are scoring this bill, that are going to rate members on...

No, of course not. theyre voting on yet another new federal anti-abortion bill today because there isnt anything else to work on. house republicans voted on a new abortion ban, specifically for washington, d.c. a new ban that breaks new grounds even for these republicans by making sure that rape victims and incest victims are not excepted from the new ban. if a rapist impregnates you in the district of columbia, they could insure even you are forced by the government to complete the pregnancy th...

Republicans. 222 cosponsors for the republicans, lets specifically punish the rape victims and incest victims new d.c. abortion bill. 222. because of the way the republicans brought up their anti-rape victim and incest victims antiabortion bill today, they needed a two thirds majority for it to pass. they did not get that two-thirds majority and it did not pass, but voting on yet another anti-abortion pill is the way the republicans in congress celebrated the fact that women all across america a...

You for being here. nice of you to take the time. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> 222 cosponsors on yet another anti-abortion bill from this crop of house republicans. why do you think they got 222 cosponsors. what does this symbolize for so many of these house members? >> well, they just all march in line. the leadership requires them to do so. you saw some of the republicans are resigning because if you dare to buck the leadership, you wont get the committee that you want, and you will be pun...

Theyre voting on yet another new federal anti-abortion bill today because there isnt anything else to work on. house republicans voted on a new abortion ban, specifically for washington, d.c. a new ban that breaks new grounds even for these republicans by making sure that rape victims and incest victims are not excepted from the new ban. if a rapist impregnates you in the district of colombia, the republicans could insure even you are forced by the government to complete the pregnancy that is th...

Public proceedings so there is a common communications form of currency that we know is the standard in law, that being english and that is of course a unifying language that helped build this country. jon: youve been at this a while. you got it passed in the iowa legislature and now iowa state law when you were a state legislator. you brought it to congress in 2003. you got 107 cosponsors. the thing didnt go anywhere. you brought it back in 2005, introduced it again, it didnt go anywhere. you b...

Franks and the other cosponsors and the politicians that voted for this anti-abortion but bill, they have voted for a series of anti-women bills. the one thing they have right is that there is a war on women, and women are watching their hypocrisy and are not impressed. >> the last time we heard from franks, he was proposing a bill to limit voting rights for people in the district of columbia even though he is from arizona. now she is back with this. >> a number of papers said that sex selection...

And they have given preference. h they get to speak before the witnesses are called. its not even a republican rule. he says its a rule of this committee. what he did say is that the rules allow that the congresswoman can sit on the desk, but she cannot speak, and she cannot ask questions. now reverend al, what i was supposed to do. that was an all male panel. i was supposed to walk up there, sit like a dumb woman, just to be seen, and to integrate that panel with women? and not be able to speak...

To speak on legislation that affects his or her district? >> abundant precedent. rachel, when there is a bill, a bill affecting a country, but you want to speak on the bill, perhaps you were a cosponsor, maybe one of ten cosponsors, you get to speak on the bill for any of the really relevant witnesses do. here you have a bill that affects only my district, in other districts in the united states, which signals out the residents of the district of columbia and say you women will not be subject to...

Refused. is there precedent for allowing a member from an opposing market to speak on legislation that affects his or her district? >> abundant precedent. rachel, when there is a bill, a bill affecting a country, but you want to speak on the bill, perhaps you were a cosponsor, maybe one of ten cosponsors, you get to speak on the bill for any of the really relevant witnesses do. here you have a bill that affects only my district, in other districts in the united states, which signals out the resi...