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Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« on: April 19, 2018, 10:31:09 am »
Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
ABC News, Apr 18, 2018

The United States Senate — a body steeped in tradition that rarely changes its ways — has passed a rule change proposed by Sen. Tammy Duckworth that will allow her to breastfeed her newborn daughter on the Senate floor.

The resolution, passed by unanimous consent, will allow all senators, men and women, to bring their children under the age of one onto the floor.

In a statement, Duckworth thanked her Democratic and Republican colleagues for “helping bring the Senate into the 21st Century by recognizing that sometimes new parents also have responsibilities at work.”

Last week, Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, became the first sitting senator to give birth while in office — and with that, she’s experiencing for the first time in history how a new mother might try to balance the needs of a newborn with her duties in the Senate. Before the rule change, no children were allowed on the Senate floor, which could pose a host of problems for a senator with a newborn to take care of and feed, an aide to Duckworth said.


More:  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/expected-rule-change-duckworth-nurse-newborn-senate-floor/story?id=54565569
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2018, 11:42:14 am »
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2018, 12:39:34 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on April 19, 2018, 11:42:14 am
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Big yawner.   Now there will be 101 boobs on the senate floor instead of 100.
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 12:42:20 pm »
Why does she get special treatment when the rest of us moms had to schedule pumping on our own time?
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2018, 12:51:08 pm »


Major Tammy Duckworth lost both legs in Iraq when the helicopter she was piloting was attacked in 2004.

https://www.stripes.com/news/the-pedals-were-gone-and-so-were-my-legs-1.34578
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2018, 01:09:49 pm »
Quote from: goodwithagun on April 19, 2018, 12:42:20 pm
Why does she get special treatment when the rest of us moms had to schedule pumping on our own time?


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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2018, 01:21:05 pm »
What's the difference? The entire Federal government has been nursing off of taxpayers for generations.
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2018, 07:53:04 pm »
Just another Dem sucking on the Gov teat.

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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2018, 08:02:54 pm »
Quote from: goodwithagun on April 19, 2018, 12:42:20 pm
Why does she get special treatment when the rest of us moms had to schedule pumping on our own time?

I nursed mine while I was at work.

Then again, I work from home full-time.
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2018, 08:20:59 pm »
I heard there was some concern about diaper changes, fussing, crying, drooling and of course, nursing.   I don't see an issue... those things happen on the Senate floor right now.
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2018, 02:01:56 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 08:20:59 pm
I heard there was some concern about diaper changes, fussing, crying, drooling and of course, nursing.   I don't see an issue... those things happen on the Senate floor right now.
That certainly was true when HRC was a senator,  anyway.
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Re: Rule change allows Duckworth to nurse newborn on Senate floor
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2018, 11:31:16 am »
Quote from: goodwithagun on April 19, 2018, 12:42:20 pm
Why does she get special treatment when the rest of us moms had to schedule pumping on our own time?

You mean besides the fact she's a Lib?
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