This bill (S. 1881) would cut off federal funding of Planned Parenthood and its affiliates and clinics. Overall federal funding would not be reduced, since the funding “no longer available to Planned Parenthood will continue to be made available to other eligible entities to provide women’s health care services.”
The Senate did not vote directly on S. 1881 but instead on a motion intended to advance the bill. That motion, to invoke cloture and limit debate on a motion to proceed to the bill, was rejected on August 3, 2015 by a vote of 53 to 46 (Roll Call 262; the motion failed because a three-fifths majority of the entire Senate is required to invoke cloture). We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the federal government should not, and has no constitutional authority to, subsidize the killing of innocent human life.
