House, Senate GOP Leaders Attack Obama Birth Control Rule

• By John Stanton and Meredith Shiner
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 8, 2012, 12:30 p.m.

Speaker John Boehner today attacked the Obama administration’s efforts to force religious hospitals and universities to provide employees with insurance that covers contraceptives, arguing the controversial rule “constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.”