24 Republican Congresswomen have joined a caucus aimed at raising the profile of GOP women in their roles as lawmakers. Voting records show these women have consistently opposed women's rights.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gestures as she speaks to attendees at the Dallas GOP dinner in Adel, Iowa. (photo: Reuters)
Members of New GOP Women's Caucus Voted Against Equality for Women
24 May 12
he 24 Republican Congresswomen in the U.S. House announced yesterday that they have joined to form the Women’s Policy Committee, a caucus aimed at “raising the profile of GOP women in their roles as lawmakers, highlighting their diverse achievements and providing a unique, unified voice on a wide range of critically important issues.”
But a ThinkProgress review of their voting records shows that the two dozen women have been fairly consistent in their legislative opposition to women’s rights:
- Violence Against Women: Of the 24 women, 22 voted to rollback the Violence Against Women Act, backing a version of the bill that could violate the confidentiality of victims and that excluded protections for immigrants, LGBT people, and Native Americans.
- Access to contraception: 21 of the 24 co-sponsored the “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act” to take away regulations enacted under Obamacare requiring most employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans, without additional cost-sharing.
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Of the 15 Republican Congresswomen who were in the House at the time, all 15 voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a law that helps women hold accountable employers who discriminate in the pay practices based on gender.
- Paycheck Fairness Act Act: 13 of those 15 also voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would update the 1963 Equal Pay Act by closing many of its loopholes and strengthening incentives to prevent pay discrimination.
- Reproductive health: According to Planned Parenthood, 20 of the 24 GOP women earned a zero score, voting against reproductive health at every opportunity. The average score for the women was under 6 percent.
Watch their video announcing the caucus:
In lauding the group’s formation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said “Make no mistake, these aren’t just leaders on so-called ‘women’s issues,’ these are women leaders on all issues.”
But their leadership on women’s issues has been decidedly absent. In fact, even in their two-minutes-and-fifteen-seconds introductory video “Working For You,” they note they are “working together to create jobs, reduce spending, health small businesses, and put back into your hands.” But they do not name a single accomplishment or goal relating to equal protection for women.
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"Stupid" is the word. How did this country ever get to be so stupid? I simply can't listen to the Right any more.
Once upon a time I was listening to both sides of the isle, but the Right has become so ridiculous they just don't make sense on any level (unless criminal greed counts) and they really do rely on the American public to be consistently stupid.
Why would any female voter support this pack of female hyenas?
I used to think it was only the men who were the stupid ones. My rationale being that women are instinctively more attuned to things because they have children to protect.
But the women who support people like Rev. John Hagee, a notorious woman hater with his uncompromising comment about "any woman who holds a job is a wh***, a tramp and a sl**, because all jobs rightfully belong to men", and other narrow-minded statements, and women who vote against their own best interests, intentionally or otherwise, are just plain stupid in their own right and these days are equaling the men in stupidity on the political playing field.
What IS that? What in heaven's name does the Right have that women voters find so appealing? I listen to someone like Elizabeth Warren and all I can think is how much sense she makes. Then I listen to someone like a Sarah Palin or a Michele Bachman and nothing but toads and snakes fall out of their mouths.
I'd give you a hundred thumbs up on this post if I could!
Betrayal is an ugly thing, and that's what these female politicians are doing. They're getting theirs (materially) and they don't care that they are betraying their sisters across the country. I can barely stand the sight or sound of any of them.
I do think there is a lot of brainwashing out there by repuke authoritarian males who rule their wives with fear, which I guess can paralyze them into being little more than robots. Even that doesn't fully explain it, though...there HAS to be a lot of "stupid" among the women across the country, too. There's just nothing else to explain it.
I was watching a YouTube clip of Scott Walker talking about being divisive up in Wisconsin and there was some female (billionaire, I'm told) who was there begging him to let her know how she could help. Several things ran through my mind:
(1) She reminded me of a dog when they go into a submission routine and I expected her to roll on the floor with her appendages up in the air showing a vulnerable belly, (2) I perceived her behavior as pandering for approval couched in the most pathetic expression of self debasing, (3) I was shocked to hear that she was exceptionally wealthy in her own right; who could trust such a self-effacing worm with a penny? And (4) She made me ashamed that any woman would conduct herself in such a humiliating way. She obviously has no respect for herself, so why should I? All she did was telegraph her own lack of self worth, and maybe that's it: Maybe Right-wing women have been brought up to hate themselves and have been programmed to self-loathing and embarrassing behavior. Makes me glad I'm a Liberal...
Can women be that stupid or desperate ? Yes..
Most of the women I associate with today are strong, educated and fighting for their rights. These women will not be fooled by the shenanigans of the GOP BUT make no mistake, there are a lot of women out there who will vote they way their boyfriend/husba nd want them to vote or follow along with the Bachmans, Palins & other defective women politicians that will convince them that the GOP knows better than them how their rights & bodies should be managed.
How did we ever get to this point ?
Will you all join me in prayer for the Aliens to come save us from ourselves ?
wives whose collective Will has been usurped by the men in their lives. Unable to think or function without their men, they are enslaved by them and seek to do the same to ALL women! NO, NO and NO again! This is ONE woman who will NOT eat the Sh*t they are serving! Women of America, be you RePublican, Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, FIGHT these un-natural Fools who seek to stamp us ALL out of the same Cookie Cutter Mold! Vote them OUT in November. The People, UNITED, will NEVER be defeated!
The House is full of mendacity.
The other section is not so easy as I have been trying to wake up the "Faux Newz" watchers for the last 12 years and they are defiant in their ignorance.
What really bothers me is the women politicians and GOP supporters who seem to want to sell out other women either to make a buck or if they really believe their "snake dancing" religious keepers are right in "keeping the women down"...
I still say that the GOP cannot tell 50% of the population they are wrong and not pay for it at the polls.
The underlying issue that controls our Energy, Education, Food, Health, Rights & Financial system comes from high above our elected officials. The reason they dont want people educated or informed is because an educated public is harder to control. Keep us stupid & dependent and we will do as we are told !!!
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