2019: Budd Voted For Roby’s Amendment To The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act. [House Vote 267, 6/12/19; Congressional Actions H.R. 2740]
Roby’s Amendment Tried To Strike Language That Blocked Enforcement Of Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule Restricting Title X Federal Family Planning Funding. According to Rewire, “When House Democrats drafted their 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) funding bill (HR 2740) in April, they included language to block the Trump administration’s rule restricting Title X federal family planning funding, dubbed the domestic ‘gag rule’ by reproductive rights advocates. The restriction is held up in court, but if implemented, it would ban health providers receiving Title X funding from making abortion referrals and force abortion providers to physically and financially separate abortion services from family planning services to receive the funding. Republicans attempted to strike the pro-choice language on Title X from the funding bill through an amendment proposed by Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL). But the amendment failed to garner enough votes in the House, where pro-choice Democrats hold a majority. Three Democrats voted with Roby to preserve the Trump administration’s anti-choice policy: Reps. Dan Lipinski (IL), Henry Cuellar (TX), and Collin Peterson (MN).” [Rewire, 6/18/19]