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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made a last-ditch push for the Senate to block a District of Columbia law Friday, but his statement was almost certainly made in vain.
Following the House vote to block D.C.’s Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act late Thursday night, the presidential candidate is urging the Senate to do the same, though senators have already left town. RHNDA is a D.C. Council measure that seeks to combat workplace discrimination based on reproductive health decisions, but conservatives say it could force employers to violate religious freedom.
“The D.C. Home Rule Act only gives Congress a limited time to act, and Congress is running the clock to the eleventh hour,” Cruz said in a statement Friday. “I applaud the House for passing a resolution of disapproval of RHNDA. I urge the Senate to immediately do the same.”
As with any D.C. law, the D.C. Council transmitted RHNDA to Congress for a 30-day review process during which time Congress can formally block the law by passing a joint resolution of disapproval. That review period ends Saturday.
Cruz, along with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., introduced a resolution of disapproval blocking RHNDA on March 18, and the presidential candidate has been mum on the resolution since then. The Senate committee with jurisdiction over D.C. has not taken up the resolution.
republican have forever treated DC residents like those they disenfranchise in other cities like Baltimore. they won't give us statehood we all know it's to be able to exploit us not having to pay commuter taxes or any other tax they would have with any other state. they come in and dictate law republicans as far away as Wash. state now Texas tea person wants to take away our governing bodies power and deny us all Black, White, Hispanic, Asian women in particular the victims of the invisible republican war on women.
