Speaker O'Brien, Rep. Manuse testify on  HB1546
Channel: impolitical
Date: 2012-02-24

Speaker William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon), Rep. Andrew Manuse (R-Derry) testify on HB1546, February 23, 2012

HB1546 was a boring but carefully crafted housekeeping bill until it was discovered to be one of the very last possible vehicles onto which Speaker O'Brien could tack his hobbyhorse du jour, a repeal of a hitherto uncontroversial 12-year-old Republican-written and Republican-approved New Hampshire law mandating birth control coverage in insurance policies regardless of the religious affiliation or beliefs of the employer.