This is a sampling of The Political Blotter, a federal blog by shaft writers Josh Richman and Lisa Vorderbrueggen. Read more and station comments at. March 17 Bay Area lawmakers keep up to revive bills that died in aforesaid Congresses, hoping that having a wider periphery of more than half in the House and a Democrat in the White House could draw the bills celebrity this hour around. For example, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., today reintroduced their Responsible Education About Life, or REAL, Act, which would go-ahead to federal funding for comprehensive, age-appropriate, medically on the mark f__king education.
For now, such funding is elbow only for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, which have been shown to reject grave news about contraception as a barrier against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. "It's organize for us to get REAL about shacking up education," Lee said in her scandal release. "We should unquestionably be teaching girlish masses about abstinence, but we shouldn't be holding back dope that can out lives and forestall unwanted pregnancies. Instead of 'abstinence only,' what we're proposing is 'abstinence-plus.' ".
