swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/30/2009
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There's been a lot of huffing and puffing this week about a provision to expand access to Medicaid-covered family planning services. First it was Republicans, who grew faint at the idea of voting for a stimulus package that contained such a provision (not that they rushed to vote for it ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/29/2009
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Women's health advocates were dismayed this week to
see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress' economic...
recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. ( Time has some good ...
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Source: Obama Plans to Get Family Planning Aid Done Soon
time.com - 1/29/2009
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Early Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed
President Obama's $819 billion plan to stimulate the struggling...
U.S. economy . But while the package that passed on a 244-188 near-party-line vote (and didn't garner a single Republican ...
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Behind the Family-Planning Flap
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Getting family planning back on track
Political Animal —
... over 10 years. There was an impression in some circles that Obama's willingness to scuttle the family-planning funds was evidence of a lack of commitment on the issue. For the president, however, it seems this was about when to advance funding on the issue, not whether . Obama wasn't giving up on access to Medicaid-covered family planning services, he was just delaying it a little to help advance the stimulus plan. On a related note, Time 's Amy Sullivan (a Monthly alum) has a helpful item on this, taking a look at what the provision would have actually done if passed: ...
About That Family Planning Provision
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... comfortable voting for the economic recovery bill (emphasis mine):
By removing the family-planning aid from the stimulus at Obama’s request, Democrats “were giving a nod to the Republicans, believing they would act in good faith,” the source added. And given how many GOPers voted for the stimulus bill, sounds like the family-planning aid is back on track.
Second, the provision is entirely innocuous (ital in original; bolds are mine):
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