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Republicans have become superaggressive on anti-abortion and even anti-contraception legislation over these past three years, the other legislative phenomenon that has gone along with that is women legislators starting to tell very, very personal stories in legislatures, in a public context. trying to hold off these new restrictions by talking about what they, themselves, have been through as women. lawmakers taking the kind of risk that congresswoman jackie speier took in congress. more often, though, it's happening in the states. in january of this year, republican state legislature in wyomi...

0 ending to this congress. and that's only talking about the republicans. but house republicans are leaving now. after tonight passing a conservative microbudget deal that congressman paul ryan negotiated with democratic senator patty murray. now, the outside conservative groups that john boehner has been screaming at for the past couple of days, they did not want republicans to vote for this deal tonight. that group, heritage action, as well as group s like freedomwors and the club for growth, they all said they would score the vote on the paul ryan plan tonight, meaning any republican who vo...

0 contrary to the advice of all the old wives' tales and the relationships' columnists. john boehner and house republicans have decided to start a huge fight in congress, right before bedtime. >> frankly, i just think that they've lost all credibility. you know, they pushed us into this fight to defund obama care and to shut down the government. most of you know, my members know, it wasn't exactly the strategy that i had in mind. but if you'll recall, the day before the government reopened, one of the people at one of these groups stood up and say, well, we never really thought it would work. ...

to bed mad. contrary to the advice of all the old wives' tales and the relationships' columnists. john boehner and house republicans have decided to start a huge fight in congress, right before bedtime. >> frankly, i just think that they've lost all credibility. you know, they pushed us into this fight to defund obama care and to shut down the government. most of you know, my members know, it wasn't exactly the strategy that i had in mind. but if you'll recall, the day before the government reopened, one of the people at one of these groups stood up and say, well, we never really tho...

[ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. a big fight about policy has just gotten extremely personal in the state of wisconsin. this is state assemblywoman mandy wright speaking on the assembly floor in the middle of a big policy fight. watch this. >> this is a story that my constituents don't know. this is a story that my students don't know. this is a story that most of my friends don't know, and that story starts when i was a kid. >> when you hear this story in context, you will not soon forget it and that i...