▪ Rolling Stone: Former Vice President Mike Pence may have inadvertently protected abortion rights in Indiana.Ģ024 headlines: GOP presidential candidate former Gov. ▪ The Washington Post: In post-Roe Virginia, a doctor-state senator stakes out a nuanced abortion stance. ▪ The Hill: Ohio’s top court rules parts of ballot measure at center of abortion fight must be rewritten. “It’s such a power grab on so many levels, and I think it really is an attempt to silence the voice of the people,” Ohio state Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio (D) told The Hill. Should the proposed constitutional amendment pass, it could make it harder for abortion rights advocates to pass their own initiative. Though the amendment doesn’t explicitly mention abortion, the election, which has sparked bipartisan backlash, comes as Democrats seek to put an abortion measure on the ballot this November that would enshrine abortion protections in the state’s constitution. Ohioans are set to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that, if passed, would require at least 60 percent of voters to pass any amendment to the state’s constitution – up from the current threshold of more than 50 percent. ▪ The Daily Beast: McCarthy rolls out his Trump defense: “A bathroom door locks.”Īs a number of states are seeking further restrictions to abortion access, the next big battle in the reproductive rights fight is set to take place in August in Ohio, where voters will consider a ballot measure that could make it harder for the state to enshrine protections for the medical procedure, writes The Hill’s Caroline Vakil. ▪ Roll Call: Democrats call for investigation into Homeland Security watchdog. ▪ Politico: Capitol Hill reckons with a government funding fight that just got tougher.
Next week, the House Armed Services Committee is set to vote on the annual defense authorization bill (as is its Senate counterpart). The end of the blockade comes just in time - the Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up a GOP tax-cut bill today, while the Appropriations Committee is poised to tackle the first of the 12 annual appropriations bills. And it has to be renegotiated in a way so that what happened on the settlement vote would never happen again, where House conservatives would be left as the less desirable coalition partner than Democrats.” Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said after leaving McCarthy’s office. “Here’s what everyone understood: The power-sharing agreement that we entered into in January with Speaker McCarthy must be renegotiated,” Rep. While the hard-liners said Monday evening that no firm agreement has been reached with the Speaker, they added they’re encouraged by the direction of the talks and will release their stranglehold on the House this week while those discussions continue ( The Hill). While vague in their demands, the detractors were essentially asking for assurances that the Speaker would hold a harder line on spending in the budget fights to come.
The conservative rebels essentially held the floor hostage since last Tuesday, when 11 hard-liners blocked a procedural measure in protest of McCarthy’s handling of the debt limit negotiations with Biden, which led to the passage of a bipartisan debt limit deal last month. House conservatives said Monday that they’re ready to end their blockade of the House floor - at least temporarily - while they continue discussions with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) about ways to give the House Freedom Caucus members more power and curb deficit spending in future funding packages. ▪ Reuters : President Biden underwent root canal procedures at the White House on Sunday and Monday, which required local anesthetic and rescheduling of his official itinerary.
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