While the US Justice Department continues to sort out the Bendagate scandal and its alleged links to human trafficking, South Dakota's GOP congressional
delegation has miraculously discovered the issue.
The partisan furor overshadowed what should have been a widely bipartisan issue for the Senate, which was just coming off a bruising political fight over Homeland Security funding and avoided — for now — what could’ve been a bitterly divisive vote over Iran. Democrats did not filibuster the anti-trafficking bill on Monday, and Reid said he’d work to allow the bill to move forward, leaving Republicans privately fuming that Democrats were provoking a fight over language that is routinely added to spending bills. Republicans said the so-called Hyde Amendment language — referring to riders often inserted in spending legislation barring the use of federal funds for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother — was in the bill Democrats supported. And Cornyn defended including the abortion language in the bill, noting that the Hyde Amendment has long been the law of the land. [POLITICO]
South Dakota deserves better than partisan hackery.
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