Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plans to hold a Senate vote next month on a bill to establish federal protections for legal contraceptives, a source familiar with his plan told NBC News. The vote is designed to force Republicans to take a side in a culture war over reproductive rights that is playing out across the country ahead of the election and has divided their party.
Both votes are designed to put GOP senators on record on tough issues over the summer of this key election year, as Democrats try to hold on to a slim majority, currently 51-to-49 votes, and as Trump has vacillated on reproductive rights. The Senate will vote this week on the bipartisan border bill introduced in February, a vote that is expected to fail with bipartisan opposition and is largely seen as an effort to respond to Republican criticism of the situation at the southern border.
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