WASHINGTON (AP) — Women in Congress are waging an early skirmish in the 2012 election — for the votes of women.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a House member from Florida, fired the first shot last month by calling the Republican plans to overhaul Medicare and limit abortion “anti-women.”
Republican women fired back late Tuesday, streaming to the House floor one after another to raise their own profiles apart from the most visible women in the GOP, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Rep. Kristi Noem says the GOP agenda is indeed pro-woman because it aims to lift some taxes and regulations on small businesses, help families thrive and the economy recover from recession.
Female voters split evenly between Republicans and Democrats in the 2010 elections.
