OVERNIGHT HEALTHCARE: Pelosi hits GOP for targeting DC reproductive health law

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hammered Republicans Thursday over their resolution to scrap a new D.C. law barring workplace discrimination based on reproductive health choices.

The California Democrat, who has long-championed women’s reproductive health rights, said the measure runs counter to the Republicans’ traditional small-government credos and poses “an outrageous intrusion into workers’ personal lives.”

“If you believe that there should be no rule of government, if you want to shut down government, if you don’t believe in governance, how is it that all of that is cast aside when it comes to women’s reproductive freedom?” Pelosi asked reporters in the Capitol. 

{mosads}”It seems to me totally inconsistent with the anti-government rhetoric that we hear around here morning, noon and night — this is Hobby Lobby on steroids,” she added, referring to last year’s Supreme Court ruling that certain employers don’t have to cover some contraceptive services under the Affordable Care Act. “Republicans need to recognize that your own healthcare choices are not your boss’s business.”

Sponsored by Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), the GOP resolution disapproves of a new D.C. law, enacted in January, that prohibits employers from discriminating against workers based on their reproductive health choices, including decisions to seek contraception or abortion services — past or present. Read more from The Hill’s Mike Lillis here. 

JINDAL CALLS FOR OBAMACARE REPLACEMENT PLANS Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday said he is “surprised” that he is the only 2016 Republican hopeful who has detailed his plans for replacing ObamaCare.

“I will tell anyone thinking about running for president, you need to have your own detailed plan about how to replace ObamaCare,” Jindal said at a D.C. panel hosted by the Washington Examiner.

“To my knowledge, I’m the only candidate — or potential candidate — that’s actually offered a detailed plan,” he said.

Jindal delivered remarks shortly after publishing an op-ed, in which he challenged several 2016 frontrunners for lacking details about how they would replace the law.

“Let’s see his plan,” Jindal said about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who discussed repealing the Affordable Care Act at a campaign event in Iowa earlier this month.

The Louisiana Republican also highlighted a recent op-ed from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) about “the post-ObamaCare era,” which offers some clues about his replacement plan.

“Now let’s see the details of his plan, and let’s discuss the merits of our respective proposals,” Jindal wrote in his own op-ed Thursday. Read more here.  

MIKULSKI LINKS BALTIMORE TO HEALTH FUNDING Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) linked the unrest in Baltimore to the push to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health on Thursday. 

Mikulski said she was worried about disparities in life expectancy between neighborhoods in Baltimore and that a need for better mental health treatment is part of the problem in the city. 

“I worry about zip code medicine,” she said at an appropriations hearing for the NIH. “The disparity in Baltimore this morning between the neighborhood in which I live, called Rowland Park, and the neighborhood called Harlem Park, where they filmed ‘The Wire,’ about two miles from where the disturbances are occurring, is a 22-year life expectancy, even controlling to violence.”

She spoke of “unacceptable” disturbances in the city, many of them by teens in the school system but added she had recently spoken to the city’s school superintendent.

“We talked about how damaged our children are,” she said. “I said, ‘What do you need in the school system?’ He said, ‘Mental health, mental health, mental health.’ ” Read more here.

Friday’s schedule

The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee holds a hearing on microbeads in cosmetic products.

State by state

Georgia go. says it’s too early to worry about refund to feds 

Florida governor addresses budget impasse, Medicaid dispute 

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