Senate Dems’ birth-control bill unsurprisingly falls flat
But winning a procedural vote wasn’t the point for Chuck Schumer. The goal was to prop up his incumbents on an issue his party and almost 90 percent of the country agree on.
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Senate Democrats moments ago failed to advance a bill that would protect access to all forms of FDA-approved birth control.
The 51–39 vote o…