THE DAILY WHIP: FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2018
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Daily Leader
| HOUSE MEETS AT: | FIRST VOTE PREDICTED: | LAST VOTE PREDICTED: |
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| 9:00 a.m.: Legislative Business Five “One Minutes” | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | ??? |
| Complete Consideration of H.R. 4712 – Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (Rep. Blackburn – Judiciary) (One Hour of Debate). This bill amends the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act of 2002 to impose a new standard of medical care and reporting requirements upon women’s health providers in the event of a live birth resulting from an abortion or attempted abortion. This standard of care does not reflect current, evidence-based clinical practices but instead seeks to legislate undue burdens on women’s health providers. Additionally, H.R. 4712 subjects health care providers to criminal penalties for failure to report any lapses or failures to provide uniform care at any particular gestational state and creates a new right of civil action. The measure does not simply strengthen current law, which affords the same legal rights to all infants, it interferes directly in the practice of medicine and the health care decisions made by a woman and her physician. This legislation is unnecessary because many existing laws at the state and federal level prohibit a physician from ending the life of any baby born alive. The House considered identical legislation on September 18, 2015. That vote can be found here. Bill Text for H.R. 4712: ***Members are advised that additional legislative items are possible. | ||
| THE DAILY QUOTE |
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| “‘We don’t have a reliable partner at the White House to negotiate with,’ Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said. ‘This has turned into an s-show for no good reason…’ A government shutdown causing employee furloughs has never occurred under unified party control of Congress and the White House.” - Washington Post, 1/19/2018 |