A filibustering Democrat and her colleagues blame Republicans for bringing the culture war to their normally bipartisan state assembly.
have signed the measures into law. In Florida, the state’s board of medicine has imposed similar limits on minors, and the state no longer allows Medicaid to cover it for anyone, regardless of age.
Nebraska has a single-chamber legislature: There is no House, only a 49-member Senate, which currently comprises 32 registered Republicans and 17 registered Democrats. Part of the chamber’s uniqueness is that, while it takes only a simple majority to pass a bill, it needs 33 votes to break a filibuster.
The mood of the legislature is varied, said Brandon Metzler, the clerk of the legislature. “Some people are annoyed, others indifferent, and some accepting of the filibuster,” he said. “It depends on their relationship with Senator Cavanaugh.” “People have offered all kinds of help, from dropping off food to child care while Senator Cavanaugh filibusters,” said Hunt. “This is because Nebraskans do not want a law banning gender-affirming care.”
She said that her bill is meant to protect children from gender-affirming care that they might regret later in life. The legislature, called the Unicam in Nebraska, used to be one of the least polarized in the country, said Geoff Lorenz, a political scientist from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but that changed with the introduction of term limits for senators, as the old guard retired.
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