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Rep. Steel cosponsored an anti-abortion bill. Her constituents backed a measure enshrining protections in 2022.
Scott County Democrats braved frigid temperatures to caucus on Monday.
WASHINGTON — In 2021, Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., whose district President Joe Biden won in 2020, co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, a bill to recognize a fertilized egg as a person with equal protections under the 14th Amendment. It was a year before the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. Steel was one of 166 House Republicans — then roughly three-quarters of the conference — who would ultimately sign on to the legislation, which amounted to a nationwide abortion ban. She did so
More than three dozen House Republicans who supported a federal abortion ban in the last Congress have yet tonot signed on this year, reflecting a shifting political calculus after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Nebraska Democrat Tony Vargas, a state senator, is vying to be the first Latino member of Congress from his state as he makes a second run after losing in 2022 by less than 6,000 votes.