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3. She voted against it
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 10:30 AM
Mar 2016

In 2001, when it actually failed, she got in protections for women as a condition for her vote; 10 years later, since it already had in it what she wanted, she was not obliged to vote for it, so she voted against it.

Bernie has voted for many things he didn't like, including Obamacare, but tried his best to get concessions in return for his vote.

That's how our system works.

I suppose we can argue that Sanders is for our bloated defense department because he votes for defense authorization bills or is against single payer because he voted for Obamacare. This issue is an example of political spin by the Sanders campaign. I don't fault them anymore than I fault the Hillary campaign with their spin since, after all, you can fool some of the people some of the time.

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