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House Republican women, looking to combat the narrative that the party's policies are bad for women, this week launched a unified effort to promote female GOP voices in Congress.

House Republican women announced the Women’s Policy Committee on Monday “with the goal of raising the profile of GOP women in their roles as lawmakers, highlighting their diverse achievements and providing a unique, unified voice on a wide range of critically important issues,” according to a press release.

The committee also helps to fill a need for a Republican defense against attacks that the GOP is engaged in a “war on women" following a high-profile controversy over the White House's contraception mandate, which the GOP opposed as an attack on religious liberty and Democrats' framed as a women's health issue. The committee, which was launched with the full support of House leadership, could be effective by helping keep female Republicans at the forefront of Republican leg! islation.

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