'Designed To Give Vulnerable Democrats A Political Cover': Thune Slams Schumer On Contraception Vote

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At a Senate Republican press briefing on Wednesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) spoke about the vote on contraceptives.

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00:00 You can tell the season we're in, the political season, based upon what the Democrats and

00:08 the Senate are and are not spending their time and energy considering.

00:13 Clearly, the goal of Senate Democrats and Senator Schumer is to have a summer of show

00:19 votes.

00:21 We had one of those already on the border.

00:23 We're having one this week on contraception.

00:26 I'm sure there will be more votes like that to come.

00:29 None of which, I might add, have an objective of actually getting a result, getting an outcome,

00:33 or getting something signed into law.

00:36 They are purely and simply designed to give vulnerable Democrats political cover on issues

00:41 that they know that they are vulnerable on.

00:44 You can also see what they're not spending their time on, what we're not spending our

00:48 time on here in the Senate.

00:49 We're not spending our time on increasing energy production or making the permitting

00:56 process easier or streamlining it.

00:59 We are not spending our time, obviously, on reducing spending to combat and attack

01:05 inflation.

01:08 And those are the types of things that we ought to be probably arguably talking about.

01:13 Energy, the border, inflation, national security, issues like that.

01:18 That's not what the Democrats are interested in talking about, simply because it doesn't

01:22 suit their political purposes.

01:23 So we are in this period right now.

01:25 It's political season.

01:27 We know that, nothing more, nothing less.

01:30 And I expect we're going to have a lot more show votes this summer.

01:33 We believe that the Democrats ought to be talking about the issues that are important

01:37 to the American people.

01:38 And those are the cost of living.

01:40 The Democrats are the party of higher prices.

01:44 Joe Biden is the president of higher prices.

01:46 We ought to be talking about energy.

01:47 We ought to be talking about what we're going to do to secure the border and what we're

01:51 going to do to keep this country safe.

01:53 Those are the things the American people care about.

01:55 They are not on the Democrats' agenda.

'Designed To Give Vulnerable Democrats A Political Cover': Thune Slams Schumer On Contraception Vote

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