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Health care law. lawmakers consider a measure allowing employers to opt out any provision they oh pose on moral or religious ground. that would include the free birth control coverage mandate. rick folbaum has more on this. >> reporter: jenna, senator roy blunt of missouri introduced this amendment. he tacked it onto a transportation bill. it does not specifically mention the word contraception. blunt says it is not about any specific medical procedure. it would allow employers or insures to opt out of pay in of the signature health care law on religious or moral brounds. as we know by now the...

Jon: a fox news alert. the so-called blunt amendment has gone down to defeat in the u.s. senate. it was a 51-48 vote. the senators defeat ago republican measure that would have allowed insurance companies or employers, i should say, to opt out of offering mandatory birth control and contraceptive coverage. roy blunt, the missouri senator, had offered that amendment as a way to allow employers who on religious or other grounds felt they should not be offering that coverage. they would be exempted from doing so. but it has gone down to defeat, 48 vote favor, 51 opposed of the so called blunt ame...

Terms of an organization saying we're not going to provide contraception. senator blunt's amendment would have forced an organization to provide something of equal value to their employees, but as you said moments ago, the measure went down 51-48 jenna. jenna: so now what, mike? what do we expect too where do we expect to head and as far as the democrats opposed to it, what was their argument to it because truly that will come up if this is approached in a different way. >> certainly this is an election year, so it's a heated issue here on capitol hill. one would expect it will come back at so...

But weak waves. the author says he will not apologize and doesn't care if anyone wad. jenna: now to our top story, we're awaiting reaction on capitol hill after the senate voted down the blunt amendment. the bill was introduced so employers could opt out of provisions in the health care law, based on religious or moral grounds. for reaction, mike emanuel is on live on -- is live on capitol hill. >> reporter: jenna, we just heard from senator blunt a short time ago saying this was about one aspect of the president's health care law that's not gone into effect, it was not all about contraception...

Cover any medical procedure, any aspect of the health care law that any given employer finds objectionable. jenna: we'll continue to watch for that, rick, thank you. jon: mitt romney's presidential campaign is trying to set the record straight on the candidate's reaction to the blunt amendment. this comes after an interview with mitt romney on the ohio news network yesterday. here is romney's initial response when asked if he supported the blunt amendment. >> i'm not for the bill but look the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception with in a relationship betw...