{"id":75536,"date":"2015-09-29T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=75536"},"modified":"2015-09-29T01:35:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T05:35:46","slug":"senate-republicans-oppose-ted-cruz-mike-lees-move-defund-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senate-republicans-oppose-ted-cruz-mike-lees-move-defund-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Senate Republicans oppose Ted Cruz&#8217;s move to defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Almost all Republican Senators present Monday night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/09\/ted-cruz-senate-rebuke-planned-parenthood-214183?cmpid=sf\">distanced themselves<\/a> from Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz&#8217;s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood via the budget appropriation process.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz sought to attach an amendment to the appropriations bill which would have stripped Planned Parenthood of its taxpayer funding, but his motion for a roll call vote was not seconded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/CRSReports\/crs-publish.cfm?pid=%26*2%3C4P%2CS%3C%0A\">11 senators necessary<\/a> to hold the vote. Cruz subsequently moved for a voice vote, which fellow Republicans booed. Only Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), another <a href=\"\/news\/senator-mike-lee-planned-parenthood-defenders-silent-know-true\/\">outspoken critic<\/a> of Planned Parenthood, sided with Cruz.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Cruz blasted the rebuke as an &#8220;unprecedented procedural trick&#8221; and accused his colleagues of not wanting to put their vote on the record: &#8220;When you are breaking the commitment you\u2019ve made to the men and women who elected you, the most painful thing in the world is accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who has fiercely condemned Planned Parenthood and <a href=\"\/news\/cruz-campaign-airs-tv-ad-ted-cruz-will-prosecute-and-defund-planned-parenthood\/\">pledged to prosecute and defund<\/a> the abortion giant as president, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/?p=press_release&amp;id=2455\">also argued<\/a> that amending must-pass legislation such as budget resolutions is the only viable way to get pro-life results under a pro-abortion president, and lamented &#8220;that the Republican leadership in both houses will not fight for a single priority that we promised the voters we would fight for when we were campaigning less than a year ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz says he will again attempt to force a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood today, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all Republican Senators present Monday night distanced themselves from Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz&#8217;s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood via the budget appropriation process. 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