In the Senate today, an amendment (sponsored by Roger Wicker) that would have restored the long-standing Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which prohibits federal funding to groups or programs that support or are otherwise involved in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization, failed 39-55.

This year’s omnibus overrides Kemp-Kasten by requiring that UNFPA receive funds “notwithstanding any other provision of law.”

36 Republicans and 3 Democrats — Bayh, Casey, and Nelson of Neb. — voted for the Wicker Amendment. Three Republicans — Collins, Snowe, Specter; I know you’re shocked — voted against it.