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After the Maine Senate unanimously passed the latest bill to ban female genital mutilation, a coalition of Representatives in the Maine House, mostly Democrats joined by a handful of liberal Independents and Greens, voted to kill the bill.
After a series of procedural maneuvers, the bill now sits in what is known as non-concurrence between the Senate and House, and is unlikely to pass in the closing days of the the legislature.
Below is a list of the sixty-five Representatives who voted to kill the bill by voting yes for the “ought not to pass” report of the bill: