Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumWhen Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html
It was a new era in Washington in 1981, and abortion rights activists were terrified.
With an anti-abortion president, Ronald Reagan, in power and Republicans controlling the Senate for the first time in decades, social conservatives pushed for a constitutional amendment to allow individual states to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that had made abortion legal nationwide several years earlier.
The amendment which the National Abortion Rights Action League called the most devastating attack yet on abortion rights cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 1982. Support came not only from Republicans but from a 39-year-old, second-term Democrat: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Freddie
(9,273 posts)People are allowed to reconsider an issue. Like Obama (and many other Dems) on same-sex marriage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)The bill never made it to the full Senate, and when it came back up the following year, Mr. Biden voted against it.
By the time he left the vice presidents mansion in early 2017, he was a 74-year-old who argued a far different view: that government doesnt have a right to tell other people that women, they cant control their body, as he put it in 2012.
Mr. Bidens spokesman, Bill Russo, said the former vice president is a supporter of the Roe decision who fought to protect abortion rights by mounting a fierce opposition to the nomination of a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, to the Supreme Court in 1987.
Because of that, Roe and its progeny have been preserved for 30 years. But for that effort, Roe v. Wade would not be the law of the land today, Mr. Russo said.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)No doubt this will be resurrected several more times before the first primary.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LibFarmer
(772 posts)that facts like you posted shouldn't come in the way of demagoguery, grand standing and fake outrage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)In both 2003 and 2005, when he was in the House, Sanders voted in favor of a measure to prohibit lawsuits against firearm makers. The second measure eventually became law.
In 1998, the House of Representatives approved a compact struck between Texas, Vermont and Maine that would allow Vermont and Maine to dump low-level nuclear waste at a designated site in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Sanders, at the time representing Vermont in the House, cosponsored the bill and actively ushered it through Congress.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)....which recommended that location?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I have one even more recent and at the heart of what Senator Sanders claims he wants to do.
When the ACA passed in 2010, a year later after quickly implementing the law, the democratic governor of Vermont and the democratic controlled Legistlature requested $2 billion from Washington to implement the first Single Payer health insurance plan in the country. When asked about whether he would help get Vermont the money, Senator Bernie Sanders said that he had nothing to do with the effort, that it was up to the governor and Legistlature to get the money. It was a funding request to Wahington, Senator Sanders was and still is a US Senator with influence in Washington.
The other US Seantor from Vermont tried to get the state the money, but without help from Bernie and republicans having taken the House, his efforts failed.
Senator Sanders is always taking about how he would implement Single Payer, but when a prime opportunity to get the first of it's kind set up in his home state, he completely bailed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)and he left the heavy lifting to others. Yet, he is supposed to get national Single Payer. Tell me how he will do that if he could not get $2 billion for his own state (or even work with the OTHER US Senator from the state who was trying to get the money).
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)so that guarantees that it gets defeated on the floor and never come back through Comittee. Biden likely voted the way he did to get the bill onto the Senate floor, where he was certain that it would be defeated and die forever.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden