{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://gwenmoore.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=49&itemid=923", "Gwen Moore Opposes So-Called \"Keep Your Health Plan\" Act", "2013-11-15", "2013", "2013-11", "Democrat", "House", "WI", "Gwen Moore", "M001160", "gwenmoore.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "By Suzy Khimm, Published: April 27\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tAfter Hilary Rosen\u2019s remarks about Ann Romney\u2019s life as a homemaker, some thought Democrats might tread more cautiously in their attempt to paint the GOP as being anti-women. Nope. Jacquelyn Martin AP\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tOn Capitol Hill, Democrats are aggressively pushing the case that Republicans are now waging a \u201cWar on Women\u201d on three legislative fronts. First, they are blasting House Republicans for their proposal to block changes to the Violence Against Women Act that would extend protection to battered women who are LGBT, immigrants or Native Americans who live on tribal lands. \u201cWe are seeing the sheer gender bias of their so-called \u2018clean\u2019 bill,\u201d Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said Friday. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to sully their hands dealing with women in the shadows.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tSecond, they\u2019ve cast the GOP proposal to lower student rates by taking money out of Obamacare\u2019s prevention fund as another \u201cassault on women,\u201d as Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put it at the news conference \u2014 which, appropriately enough, was held in a small alcove in the Capitol lined with statues of former male senators. According to the female Democrats, the prevention fund targets osteoporosis, arthritis and mental illness, \u201cwhich disproportionately affect women,\u201d explained Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). So by targeting such funds, Republicans are going out of their way to go after women, the Dems\u2019 argument goes. \u201cTheir assault on women\u2019s health is part of their continued assault on women,\u201d Pelosi concluded.\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tIn fact, the prevention fund\u2019s biggest programs don\u2019t aim to target women in particular: As my colleague Sarah Kliff pointed out this morning, most of the money goes toward training primary-care doctors and investing in community-level health programs to reduce smoking, obesity and other problems.\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tBut the Democrats aren\u2019t going to let up their push to cast Republicans as the party against women. As my colleague Greg Sargent reports today, Senate Democrats are planning to hold a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which \u201cwould put more pressure on employers to prove that differences in wages are not rooted in gender difference, and would make it easier for employees to divulge information about their salaries\u201d to combat gender-based pay discrimination.\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tRepublicans insist that Democrats are fabricating the \u201cWar on Women\u201d to score political points. After hearing the Dems\u2019 pushback against preventative health, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) erupted on the House floor Friday. \u201cWhy do people insist that we have to have a political fight on something where there is no fight? ... My God, do we have to fight about everything?\u201d Boehner said as his colleagues cheered him on. \u201cAnd now, now we are going to have a fight over women\u2019s health. Give me a break. This is the latest plank in the so-called war on women. Entirely created, entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tDemocrats don\u2019t agree that the \u201cWar on Women\u201d is something they concocted out of thin air. But they do agree that it is leading to political gain for them. \u201cDemocrats have a 15 to 20 percent gender gap advantage, and [Republicans] worked very hard to earn that gender gap,\u201d Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) concluded.\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tTo view this article online, please click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://gwenmoore.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=49&itemid=923"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7114440086297691, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}