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Ron Paul's Son's Fetal Personhood Amendment Stalls Flood Insurance Bill

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Rand Paul Fetal Personhood Amendment Stalls Flood Insurance Bill (UPDATE)

Posted: 06/26/2012 3:04 pm Updated: 06/26/2012 6:06 pm

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization.

The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated "fetal personhood" amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to halt progress on the legislation.

"I'm told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment -- listen to this one -- wants to offer an amendment on when life begins," Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my friends can say, 'Let them have a vote on it.' There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We'll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won't do it. We'll have an extension."

Reid has allowed Republicans to attach unrelated amendments to other important bills in the past few months. Most notably, he let the Senate vote on a contraception-related amendment, proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), to a transportation bill. But Reid called Paul's measure "ridiculous" and "outlandish," and asked Republicans to deal with him on "their side of the aisle."

Paul told reporters on Tuesday afternoon that he is "just trying to get a vote for people who elected me."

"Can you believe that they're exasperated with me?" he said, responding to criticism of his attempt to attach the unrelated amendment. "If [Reid will] give me a freestanding vote, I'll take a freestanding vote any time."

The highly controversial concept of fetal personhood raised by Paul's amendment could affect the legality of abortion, some forms of birth control, stem cell research and in vitro fertilization.

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Rand Pauls reply is what bothered me the most. His "why are people fed up with me when im just trying to be true to my constituents" is such complete and utter arrogant bull++++. He should be laughed out of office but will probably get re elected instead.

Id like to say American polititcs are total rubbish but our Canadian politics arent much better.

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Wow way to highjack a bill that could help millions with political bullsh%t, this is just awful. Glad Ried took a stance on this crap of unrelated amendments but I was sad to hear he let others go to vote. Maybe I'm old fashioned but shouldn't the amendment actually have something to do with the main bill?

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Rand Pauls reply is what bothered me the most. His "why are people fed up with me when im just trying to be true to my constituents" is such complete and utter arrogant bull++++. He should be laughed out of office but will probably get re elected instead.

Id like to say American polititcs are total rubbish but our Canadian politics arent much better.

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Wow way to highjack a bill that could help millions with political bullsh%t, this is just awful. Glad Ried took a stance on this crap of unrelated amendments but I was sad to hear he let others go to vote. Maybe I'm old fashioned but shouldn't the amendment actually have something to do with the main bill?

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I heard about this, it's so ridiculous.

Republicans deny climate change and any regulations tied to it. They stall aid bills with crap like this. They fight to cut funding for emergency rescue services. And then they still blame Obama for the floods and wildfires that are wreaking havoc across the States.

Anyone who wants to vote for these clowns is delusional.

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I heard about this, it's so ridiculous.

Republicans deny climate change and any regulations tied to it. They stall aid bills with crap like this. They fight to cut funding for emergency rescue services. And then they still blame Obama for the floods and wildfires that are wreaking havoc across the States.

Anyone who wants to vote for these clowns is delusional.

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