Today's Losers: Women in Washington State

The State Department of Social and Health Services announced this week they're cutting the Take Charge program—a Medicaid-waiver program that provides family planning services to women in Washington State.

Planned Parenthood has a press release saying the loss of the program would leave 50,000 people without birth control and family planning services (we haven't heard back from the state Health Department yet for their read on the numbers).

We can't imagine it's too good.

Today's Winner: Sen. Patty Murray in Washington D.C.

Back in January Murray proposed a small biz loan bill (she even got a shout out for it from President Obama in his State of the Union).

And then last week, before heading back to D.C., she predicted on record that the bill would pass this week (even though she was facing a GOP filibuster and needed 60 votes.)

Here's what she told the Seattle Times last week [20-minute mark]:

"I talked to Secretary [Timothy] Geithner, and I said, 'You have got to look at what's happening to our small community banks because their hands are tied ... and that's inhibiting our economy.' I have pushed him very hard to do this [get money to community banks] from an administrative level, and he has told us we need legislative language to do it. So next week, we will be able to put in place, I believe we'll have the votes, to be able to take $30 billion out of treasury to loan to community banks at an interest rate of 1 percent return if they loan it out to [small] businesses."

Today's vote 61-37 to end cloture with two Republicans on her side.