Menendez said Senate vote on abortion rights put senators on record on a woman's right to choose
The pressure was on federal lawmakers on Wednesday as the Senate voted on a bill to protect the constitutional right to abortion access — but the vote was doomed to fail from the start. Democrats couldn’t cobble together the 60 votes needed to move it forward in a 50-50 split chamber, further showing the partisan divide in Washington while getting every member’s stance on the record.
Joining NJ Spotlight News from the Hill is Sen. Bob Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator.
An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
