Cornyn: Senators Knew About Abortion Provisions in Trafficking Bill

285 views · Published 10 March 2015 · 1:53 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Roll Call · 2015 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

Majority Whip John Cornyn on Tuesday pushed back against Senate Democrats who claimed they were unaware of language broadening the scope of the prohibition of federal funding on abortion, saying it was "untrue" Democrats were unaware of the language.

"Some of the suggestions being made now that there were provisions in the legislation that people didn’t know about are simply untrue. That presupposes that none of their staff briefed their senators on what was in the legislation, that nobody read a 68-page bill and that senators would vote for a bill, much less co-sponsor it without reading it, and knowing what’s in it,” Cornyn said. “None of that strikes me as plausible.”

Read more: http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/senate-faces-trust-breakdown-over-abortion-rider/?dcz=

Website: http://www.rollcall.com
Follow us: http://www.twitter.com/RollCall
Like us: http://www.facebook.com/RollCallDC
Google+: http://www.google.com/+RollCall
Tumblr: http://photos.rollcall.com

More from this channel

• 3:11 Candidate Interview: Matt Bevin (R) KY-SEN

  Roll Call

  977 views · 10 September 2013

• 3:22 Candidate Interview: Mike Bost (R) IL-12

  Roll Call

  658 views · 12 September 2013

• 2:08 Candidate Interview: Lee Bright (R) SC-SEN

  Roll Call

  582 views · 23 September 2013

• 4:54 McConnell on Obamacare Defunding Filibuster

  Roll Call

  1,554 views · 24 September 2013

• 3:07 Candidate Interview: Thom Tillis (R) NC-SEN

  Roll Call

  1,974 views · 26 September 2013

• 3:59 Has Shutdown Rhetoric Violated Senate Rules?

  Roll Call

  417 views · 4 October 2013

• 2:27 Candidate Interview: Ann Callis (D) IL-13

  Roll Call

  919 views · 24 October 2013

• 2:34 Booker Officially Sworn In as Senator

  Roll Call

  626 views · 31 October 2013