On Capitol Hill, Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking Senate vote Thursday on a bill that will allow states to cut off federal funding to women’s health clinics that provide abortions. All but two Republicans—Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—voted in favor of the measure, but few Republicans joined Senate debate Thursday. This is Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington.

Sen. Patty Murray: “The deafening silence from the group of almost entirely male Republican senators who are voting today to make it harder for women to get the healthcare they need—not one spoke today to justify this vote. Where are those Republican senators, Mr. President? Why did they feel so entitled not just to interfere with women’s healthcare decisions, but to do so without explaining themselves?”