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2016 Congressional Record on Choice Policy Department 1156 15th Street, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 202.973.3000 NARAL Pro-Choice America believes every woman has the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON CHOICE 114TH CONGRESS, 2ND SESSION NARAL Pro-Choice America’s 2016 Con- gressional Record on Choice documents the key choice-related House and Senate votes taken during the second session of the 114th Congress. 2016 was another year of exceptional ani- mosity toward women’s rights. Anti-choice lawmakers continued their efforts to under- mine reproductive freedom, despite an American majority supportive of legal abor- tion. This disconnect between public opinion and elected officials also is evident numeri- cally: as the 114th Congress came to a close, only 37 out of 100 senators and 169 out of 435 members of the House were fully pro-choice. At the start of its second year with majori- ties in both chambers, anti-choice leadership wasted no time resuming its assault on repro- ductive rights with a particular focus in three areas: attacks on Planned Parenthood, refusal bills allowing discrimination based on women’s reproductive-health decisions, and restrictions on contraception in Zika-response legislation. 2016 Congressional Record on Choice 1 Within its first month in session, the House passed a bill defunding Planned Parenthood for one year and voted to override the presi- dent’s veto. The House also passed three sweeping anti-choice refusals: a dangerous expansion of the Federal Refusal Clause, a measure blocking a D.C. reproductive-health non-discrimination law, and a provision undermining protections for women and LGBT workers. Thankfully, none of these pro- posals moved in the Senate. Over the course of the year, the Zika virus developed into a public-health emergency with particular dangers for reproductive- age women. Rather than acting quickly and responsibly, anti-choice members of Congress played politics with the crisis. They walked away from a bipartisan compromise on a Zika- funding bill and instead repeatedly pushed a bill that would harm – rather than protect – women’s health by restricting funding for contraception. Although the House passed the legislation, pro-choice senators success- fully blocked it. After months of pressure from the American public and pro-choice champi- ons, anti-choice leadership finally conceded, removing the restriction on family-planning providers and passing crucial Zika funding. Despite these attacks on reproductive freedom, the fight over Zika demonstrated that members of Congress are increasingly strong in their defense of reproductive rights. Pro-choice senators refused to allow family planning to be held hostage by ideological extremists. They stood strong against legisla- tion that would have put women at greater 2 NARAL Pro-Choice America risk, forcing anti-choice leadership to back down from its dangerous demands. And cosponsorship of the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Woman Act continued to grow, bringing the total to a record-high 130 cosponsors. The bill, which would repeal current-law bans on abortion services in government health-care programs, reflects a growing movement on Capitol Hill that restrictions such as the Hyde amendment must go. This positive trend is even more important given the devastating results of the 2016 election. The election of Donald Trump as president and the retention of anti-choice majorities in the House and Senate pose an immediate threat to reproductive freedom. As president, Trump will have the power to nominate anti- choice federal judges and fill his cabinet with agency heads that are hostile to reproductive rights. He has already threatened to repeal the Affordable Care Act and dismantle its many benefits, fulfill his running mate’s long-held goal of defunding Planned Parenthood, and roll back the protections of Roe v. Wade. A Trump-Pence administration represents the most serious challenge to reproductive freedom in a generation. However, we are not without hope: Hillary Clinton, a pro-choice champion, won 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump, and seven in 10 Americans support legal abortion, even in red states. NARAL Pro-Choice America will stand alongside congressional champions and allies to meet each challenge posed by the incom- 2016 Congressional Record on Choice 3 ing administration with the force and support of our one million member activists and the unshakable confidence that Americans want to see their freedoms protected and defended, not dismantled. 4 NARAL Pro-Choice America VOTE DESCRIPTIONS SENATE 1. Restriction on Contraception: Zika Response. Zika Response and Preparedness Act, H.R.2577. Motion to invoke cloture on the conference report to accompany H.R.2577, which restricts access to contraception by excluding family-planning providers from receiving Zika response funds. (Some anti- choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unre- lated to reproductive health.) Three-fifths of the total Senate (60 votes) is required to invoke cloture. Cloture motion failed 52-48. A pro-choice vote (+) was against cloture (6/28/16). 2. Restriction on Contraception: Zika Response. Zika Response and Preparedness Act, H.R.2577. Motion to invoke cloture on the conference report to accompany H.R.2577, which restricts access to contraception by excluding family-planning providers from receiving Zika response funds. (Some anti- choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unre- lated to reproductive health.) Three-fifths 2016 Congressional Record on Choice 5 of the total Senate (60 votes) is required to invoke cloture. Cloture motion failed 52-44. A pro-choice vote (+) was against cloture (7/14/16). 3. Restriction on Contraception: Zika Response. Zika Response and Preparedness Act, H.R.2577. Motion to invoke cloture on the conference report to accompany H.R.2577, which restricts access to contraception by excluding family-planning providers from receiving Zika response funds. (Some anti- choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unre- lated to reproductive health.) Three-fifths of the total Senate (60 votes) is required to invoke cloture. Cloture motion failed 52-46. A pro-choice vote (+) was against cloture (9/6/16). 6 NARAL Pro-Choice America 2016 SENATE VOTES Restriction onRestriction Contraception: onRestriction Contraception: on Contraception: Zika ResponseZika ResponseZika Response 1 2 3 % ALABAMA Richard Shelby - - - 0 Jeff Sessions - - - 0 ALASKA Lisa Murkowski - - - 0 Dan Sullivan - - - 0 ARIZONA John McCain - - - 0 Jeff Flake - - - 0 ARKANSAS John Boozman - - - 0 Tom Cotton - - - 0 CALIFORNIA DIANNE FEINSTEIN + + + 100 BARBARA BOXER + + + 100 COLORADO MICHAEL BENNET + + + 100 Cory Gardner - - - 0 CONNECTICUT RICHARD BLUMENTHAL + + + 100 CHRIS MURPHY + + + 100 DELAWARE THOMAS CARPER + + + 100 CHRIS COONS + + + 100 FLORIDA BILL NELSON + + + 100 Marco Rubio - - - 0 1 2 3 % 2016 Congressional Record on Choice 7 2016 SENATE VOTES (continued) Restriction onRestriction Contraception: onRestriction Contraception: on Contraception: Zika ResponseZika ResponseZika Response 1 2 3 % GEORGIA Johnny Isakson - - - 0 David Perdue - - - 0 HAWAII BRIAN SCHATZ + + + 100 MAZIE HIRONO + + + 100 IDAHO Michael Crapo - - - 0 Jim Risch - - - 0 ILLINOIS RICHARD DURBIN + + + 100 Mark Kirk - - - 0 INDIANA Dan Coats - - - 0 JOE DONNELLY - - - 0 IOWA Charles Grassley - - - 0 Joni Ernst - - - 0 KANSAS Pat Roberts - - - 0 Jerry Moran - - - 0 KENTUCKY Mitch McConnell L - - 0 Rand Paul - - - 0 LOUISIANA David Vitter - - - 0 Bill Cassidy - - - 0 1 2 3 % 8 NARAL Pro-Choice America 2016 SENATE VOTES (continued) Restriction on Contraception: Restriction onRestriction Contraception: onRestriction Contraception: on Contraception: Zika Response Zika ResponseZika ResponseZika Response 1 2 3 % MAINE Susan Collins - - - 0 Angus King + + + 100 MARYLAND BARBARA MIKULSKI + + + 100 BENJAMIN CARDIN + + + 100 MASSACHUSETTS ELIZABETH WARREN + + + 100 ED MARKEY + + + 100 MICHIGAN DEBBIE STABENOW + + + 100 GARY PETERS + + + 100 MINNESOTA AMY KLOBUCHAR + A + 100 AL FRANKEN + A + 100 MISSISSIPPI Thad Cochran - - - 0 Roger Wicker - - - 0 MISSOURI CLAIRE McCASKILL + + + 100 Roy Blunt - - - 0 MONTANA JON TESTER + + + 100 Steve Daines - - - 0 NEBRASKA Deb Fischer - - - 0 Benjamin Sasse - - - 0 1 2 3 % 2016 Congressional Record on Choice 9 2016 SENATE VOTES (continued) Restriction onRestriction Contraception: onRestriction Contraception: on Contraception: Zika ResponseZika ResponseZika Response 1 2 3 % NEVADA HARRY REID + + + 100 Dean Heller - - - 0 NEW HAMPSHIRE JEANNE SHAHEEN + + + 100 Kelly Ayotte - - - 0 NEW JERSEY ROBERT MENENDEZ + + + 100 CORY BOOKER + + + 100 NEW MEXICO TOM UDALL + + + 100 MARTIN HEINRICH + + + 100 NEW YORK CHARLES SCHUMER + + + 100 KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND + + + 100 NORTH CAROLINA Richard Burr - - - 0 Thom Tillis - A - 0 NORTH DAKOTA John Hoeven - - A 0 HEIDI HEITKAMP + + + 100 OHIO SHERROD BROWN + + + 100 Rob Portman - - - 0 OKLAHOMA James Inhofe - - - 0 James Lankford + + + 100 1 2 3 % 10 NARAL Pro-Choice America 2016 SENATE VOTES (continued) Restriction on Contraception: Restriction onRestriction Contraception: onRestriction Contraception:
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