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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Sun May 7, 2017, 09:18 PM May 2017

Its wrong: Democrats blast Senate GOPs all-male healthcare group

Source: raw story





07 May 2017 at 18:28 ET





California senator-elect Kamala Harris gives her victory speech (Screen capture)

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As the Senate begins to wrestle with a Republican healthcare bill narrowly approved by the House of Representatives last week, senators questioned why the 13-member working group put together by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell does not include any of the chamber’s five Republican women.

“Women’s health is a big part of this and women are a majority of the population, and their health interests deserve to be contemplated in any reform,” Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington wrote on Twitter: “It matters to have women at the table — and it matters when they aren’t.”

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“The GOP is crafting policy on an issue that directly impacts women without including a single woman in the process. It’s wrong,” Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/its-wrong-democrats-blast-senate-gops-all-male-healthcare-group/



Article talks of a few nasty tweets from Trumpy also.
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Its wrong: Democrats blast Senate GOPs all-male healthcare group (Original Post) riversedge May 2017 OP
I can't believe those a-holes STILL do that...repeatedly. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #1
They totally believe in patriarchy brer cat May 2017 #3
Mrs. Pence Scarsdale May 2017 #5
Actually it's good. Turbineguy May 2017 #2
The five Republican women........ SergeStorms May 2017 #4
No 10's Scarsdale May 2017 #6

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
1. I can't believe those a-holes STILL do that...repeatedly.
Sun May 7, 2017, 09:43 PM
May 2017

They create committees consisting of all males, usually all white, to handle medical and other concerns that affect WOMEN greatly. I'm sick of it.

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
2. Actually it's good.
Sun May 7, 2017, 09:45 PM
May 2017

The more they screw it up the better. The Senate no longer does "advise and consent". It's a gaggle of political hacks with the republicans in charge.

It would be nice if the main stream media got into the business of helping the country (at this point we are talking about enlightened self-interest already).

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
4. The five Republican women........
Mon May 8, 2017, 03:59 AM
May 2017

were barefoot and baking in the Congressional kitchen when the discussions were going on. You know....."woman's work".

It's just the way these knuckle dragging Neanderthals think, and we all know it.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. No 10's
Mon May 8, 2017, 07:28 AM
May 2017

among them, either. tRump decided they were all at best 5's, so who needs them? Being the handsome hunk that tRump is, he grades women, and decided any woman over 35 is used up.

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