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Senate to vote on bid to rescind HHS mandate; Sebelius promises compromise plan 'soon'
Senate to vote on bid to rescind HHS mandate; Sebelius promises compromise plan 'soon'
February 29, 2012
The US Senate is scheduled to vote March 1 on a measure that would repeal the Obama administration’s mandate that requiring contraceptive coverage in health-care programs.
The legislation, sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, takes the form of an amendment attached to an unrelated transportation bill. It is not expected to pass. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has agreed to schedule a vote promptly, saying that he hopes to “put this extreme and distracting proposal behind us.”
In a related development Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), has disclosed that her department will present “in the near future” the Obama administration’s proposal for an “accommodation” with religious institutions that object to the mandate. “We’ve begun outreach,” Sebelius said. “I have talked to Catholic health leaders, I’m reaching out to priests.”
The HHS Secretary did not indicate whether she has spoken with Catholic bishops. The leaders of the US bishops’ conference have disclosed that they were not consulted before the Obama administration originally unveiled its “compromise” proposal. Several political analysts have observed that the administration seems intent on creating divisions among American Catholics on the issue, forming alliances with liberal Catholics who are sympathetic to the Obama plan.
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