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#BoehnerStyle: Tea Party Pressure Means Speaker’s Flimsy Pledges on Transparency Out the Window

January 22, 2015
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Late last night, Speaker Boehner and House Republican Leaders pulled a bill attacking women's access to health care amid pressure from their own Members…

Roll Call: GOP Leaders Pull Abortion Ban on Female Members' Revolt

Washington Post: Abortion bill dropped amid concerns of female GOP lawmakers 

AP: House GOP abruptly drops plans to debate abortion bill

CNN: House GOP leaders cave on abortion bill

National Journal: GOP Leaders Pull Abortion Bill After Revolt by Women, Moderates

Only to replace it with another, more far-reaching attack on women's access to health care that the President has vowed to veto.

Not only are Republicans continuing to slam through a partisan agenda that threatens women's health freedoms and raises taxes on small businesses, but they are deliberately violating their so-called insistence that legislation be posted 3-legislative days before being considered on the House Floor.  Check out the previous times Speaker Boehner and House Republicans pulled their outrageous bills before making tweaks or replacing them with others:

Roll Call: Boehner Delays Vote, Considers Changes to Debt Bill[7/28/11]

The Daily Kos: House leadership blocks vote on payroll tax cut extension[12/19/11]

POLITICO: Cliff chaos: Boehner pulls GOP bill[12/21/12]

The Houston Chronicle: Boehner blasted for pulling Sandy aid bill[1/2/13]

The Associated Press: House Republicans Pull Health Care Bill After Backlash[4/24/13]

The Washington Times: House rejection of farm bill sows bad seeds for Boehner[6/20/13]

MSNBC: Boehner pulls shutdown bill in major defeat[10/15/13]

The Guardian: Boehner backs down and drops Republican demands on debt ceiling[2/11/14]

The Washington Post: Revolt within GOP quashes border vote[7/31/14]

Roll Call: GOP Leaders Pull Abortion Ban on Female Members' Revolt  [1/21/15]