GOP bill to defund Planned Parenthood moving along in the House

[YoungDemCA]

Introduced: Jul 21, 2015
Status: Referred to Committee on Jul 21, 2015
This bill was assigned to a congressional committee on July 21, 2015, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.
The House Majority Leader indicated on Sep 14, 2015 that this bill may be considered in the week ahead.
This bill is scheduled for the following committee meetings:
Sep 16, 2015 7 p.m. — House Committee on Rules

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr3134?utm_campaign=govtrack_email_update&utm_source=govtrack/email_update&utm_medium=email

From the same page:

The bill now has 176 cosponsors (175 Republicans, 1 Democrat).

The one Democratic cosponsor is conservaDem Dan Lipinski from the Chicago area. Other than him, this is entirely the work of the GOP.

[DCBob]

1. All show.

It wont go anywhere past the House.

[FBaggins]

2. I doubt that it will get anywhere

Both sides want the issue for next year.

[KansDem]

3. All based on a hoax

I really wish we had a Congress that acted on truth and reality than one that is motivated by lies and hoaxes.

[dorkzilla]

4. Guess they forgot they’d promised their masters they wouldn’t do this again

Guess it’s not just the “extremists"

According to a recent survey of 62 real economists by the Wall Street Journal, it is not the instability of China’s stock market, or its move to devalue its currency, or the Greek Eurozone crisis, or the possibility of the Federal Reserve finally raising interest rates. What frightens a great majority of the nation’s leading economic experts most of all is that the Republican-controlled Congress will “precipitate another fiscal crisis this fall” when Republicans plan to either shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood is destroyed, or hold the debt ceiling hostage until Planned Parenthood is destroyed. It is important to note that the push to put an end to Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with the economy, debt and deficit, national security, jobs, or economic growth; it is about legislating and enforcing an extremist religious policy.

The devoutly Republican Wall Street Journal’s economic round table noted that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a solemn promise that Republicans would never shut down the government, or ever hold the debt ceiling hostage again. However, McConnell, or Speaker John Boehner for that matter, does not lead the Republican-controlled Congress; that power belongs to evangelical maniac Ted Cruz and his extremist clergymen in both chambers.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/08/25/wall-street-journal-warns-republicans-greatest-threat-americas-economy.html

[YoungDemCA]

5. The GOP need to throw some bones to their voter base every now and then

Even when it pisses the donors off.

[smirkymonkey]

6. It's all they've got. They have no real ideas for the economy, debt & deficit,

national security (except more war, which makes us less safe), jobs or economic growth.

They have to run on the god, guns and gays thing because it's the only thing their base can get behind.

[dorkzilla]

7. Ain’t that the fukcing truth.

I can’t imagine being stupid enough to fall for that trope over and over and over and over. And these are our fellow countrymen.