The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

we all had the same (health insurance) card.

Union members, for example, are overwhelmingly covered by health insurance - and non-union members overwhelmingly are struggling to get health insurance. That's just one of the many benefits that is affected. It's just a fact of life.

For many years I didn't have health insurance.

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.