Tucson Sentinel Article RatingDefense bill that targets abortion access, trans health, racial equity passes U.S. House
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| "Henry Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat from Texas, voted in favor." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Texas Republican Chip Roy authored another amendment to ensure the Pentagon does not create any such position." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The U.S. House approved Friday an aual defense authorization bill loaded with GOP rollbacks of Pentagon policies on abortion and transgender health care, as well as efforts to boost racial equity." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The bill had seemed likely to attract overwhelming bipartisan support before Thursday, when Republicans successfully added amendments on abortion and more, prompting Democratic leaders to declare they would not support the package." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "My colleagues want to ensure that the enlisted women of the United States military and their family members who live in Republican states where abortion has been baed are forced to carry a pregnancy to term even in the case of rape and incest, she said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The ignorance contained in these comments is really breathtaking, Smith said of Rosendale." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The ignorance contained in these comments is really breathtaking, Smith said of Rosendale." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The Democrats who voted yes all hail from swing or Republican districts: Donald G. Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The Democrats who voted yes all hail from swing or Republican districts: Donald G. Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The Democrats who voted yes all hail from swing or Republican districts: Donald G. Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The Democrats who voted yes all hail from swing or Republican districts: Donald G. Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "These monuments are supposed to reflect our values, Smith said." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The House Freedom Caucus extracted major gains from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the begiing of this Congress and said Friday they would continue to use that leverage after their success with the Pentagon bill." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The question that must be asked is whether having trans individuals makes the United States a more lethal force and whether it helps recruit the best and most effective talent for the United States military, Rosendale said." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "After lawmakers added several noncontroversial amendments Wednesday and early Thursday, key Democrats, including Armed Services Committee ranking member Adam Smith of Washington, said they were poised to support the bill, predicting that more than 300 colleagues of both parties would join them." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Norman offered an amendment to eliminate any positions in the Pentagon or service branches that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, a trend in the private workforce to hire and retain employees of diverse racial, gender and sexual orientation backgrounds." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "President Joe Biden's administration strongly supported the bill as it passed out of committee, according to a July 10 statement of administration policy from the White House." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "I do not believe we would have achieved the Republican unity in the House, but for the courage of Senator Tuberville, Gaetz said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I do not believe we would have achieved the Republican unity in the House, but for the courage of Senator Tuberville, Gaetz said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Democrat Brendan Boyle of Pesylvania voted present." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "To save America, conservatives need to hold the line, Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Both votes were again nearly party line, with the exceptions of Duarte voting with Democrats and Cuellar with Republicans." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The House also adopted an amendment from Boebert that would prohibit the Department of Defense Education Activity, a school system for children of service members in the United States and 11 foreign countries, from keeping in its libraries pornography or books that espouse radical gender ideology." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Henry Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat from Texas, voted in favor." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It's mind boggling that we would want to deter and discriminate against a group of people who have proven their patriotism and deep commitment to our country, Jacobs said." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Texas Republican Chip Roy authored another amendment to ensure the Pentagon does not create any such position." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "All Republicans present voted in favor, as did Cuellar and Davis." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In a triumphant Friday morning news conference, members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus said their successful amendments were part of a drive to remove the Biden administration's insertion of social policy into the Defense Department." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Nearly along party lines, the House also approved amendments from Republicans Matt Rosendale of Montana and Ralph Norman of South Carolina to block funding for health care for transgender service members." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Nearly along party lines, the House also approved amendments from Republicans Matt Rosendale of Montana and Ralph Norman of South Carolina to block funding for health care for transgender service members." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Trans people have served in the military for years, said Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat with a trans brother." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Thursday, Smith said the base bill had demonstrated a commitment to national defense and to service members." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The chamber rejected an amendment from Virginia Republican Bob Good to block any funding to implement the recommendations of a commission Congress created in 2020 to propose new names for military bases named after Confederate figures." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Boebert and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, credited Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's ongoing blockade of Defense Department nominees over the Pentagon's abortion policy for inspiring the House members." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Boebert and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, credited Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's ongoing blockade of Defense Department nominees over the Pentagon's abortion policy for inspiring the House members." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Boebert and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, credited Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's ongoing blockade of Defense Department nominees over the Pentagon's abortion policy for inspiring the House members." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Seven members didn't vote on the Rosendale amendment and eight didn't vote on the Norman amendment." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "What was once an example of compromise and functioning government has become an ode to bigotry and ignorance, Smith said in a statement." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Nine Democrats -- Cuellar, Davis, Jared Golden of Maine, Willy Nickel of North Carolina, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Gluesenkamp Perez and Kim Schrier of Washington and Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts -- joined all Republicans in favor of the amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Taxpayer money provided to DOD is intended to provide for our national defense and our national security, not to promote and support the Biden administration's radical and immoral pro-abortion agenda." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "If you don't know if you're a man or a woman, you shouldn't be going to war, Norman said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "We need to continue to push back against the Biden administration's woke agenda." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But Smith -- who wound up voting against the defense measure -- warned on Wednesday he might oppose it if Republicans attached some extreme right-wing amendments they were proposing." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican who chairs the powerful House Rules Committee, noted before debate on the most contentious amendments began Thursday that he opposed some of the amendments Democrats objected to, and predicted they would not pass, leaving 95" | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The House adopted, 221-213, an amendment from Texas Republican Roy Jackson that would block funding for a Defense Department policy to reimburse service members for travel expenses related to seeking an abortion." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "They are putting culture wars over national security, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, said during debate Thursday on an abortion-related amendment." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Roy also brought an amendment to ban Department of Defense Education Activity schools from teaching certain curricula on race in the U.S., including that founding documents were racist." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The four Republicans who voted against the bill are all members of the conference's right wing: Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado and Thomas Massie of Kentucky." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The four Republicans who voted against the bill are all members of the conference's right wing: Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado and Thomas Massie of Kentucky." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The four Republicans who voted against the bill are all members of the conference's right wing: Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado and Thomas Massie of Kentucky." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "We're talking about going from crazy to normal, Scott Perry, the Pesylvania Republican who chairs the group, said." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Jackson called the policy an effort to sidestep the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that removed the federal right to an abortion." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "That measure was adopted 217-212, with Chavez-DeRemer and Fitzpatrick joining all Democrats in voting no." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "That measure was adopted 217-212, with Chavez-DeRemer and Fitzpatrick joining all Democrats in voting no." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Two Republicans, Pesylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick and California's John Duarte, voted against the amendment." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Two Republicans, Pesylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick and California's John Duarte, voted against the amendment." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Jackson's amendment would make it more difficult for some service members to get an abortion, Texas Democrat Veronica Escobar said." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Jackson's amendment would make it more difficult for some service members to get an abortion, Texas Democrat Veronica Escobar said." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "This illegal, Biden-endorsed policy has no place in our military, Jackson said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "This illegal, Biden-endorsed policy has no place in our military, Jackson said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "All Democrats present and Republicans Fitzpatrick, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon and Michael R. Turner of Ohio voted against." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
| "All Democrats present and Republicans Fitzpatrick, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon and Michael R. Turner of Ohio voted against." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
| "All Democrats present and Republicans Fitzpatrick, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon and Michael R. Turner of Ohio voted against." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
| "All Democrats present and Republicans Fitzpatrick, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon and Michael R. Turner of Ohio voted against." | Negative | -82% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : Henry Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat from Texas, voted in favor.48% :Texas Republican Chip Roy authored another amendment to ensure the Pentagon does not create any such position.
46% : The U.S. House approved Friday an annual defense authorization bill loaded with GOP rollbacks of Pentagon policies on abortion and transgender health care, as well as efforts to boost racial equity.
45% : The bill had seemed likely to attract overwhelming bipartisan support before Thursday, when Republicans successfully added amendments on abortion and more, prompting Democratic leaders to declare they would not support the package.
38% : "My colleagues want to ensure that the enlisted women of the United States military and their family members who live in Republican states where abortion has been banned are forced to carry a pregnancy to term even in the case of rape and incest," she said.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.