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HuffPost Politics ?@HuffPostPol 2h2 hours ago
House Republicans create special committee to harass Planned Parenthood http://huff.to/1VEDpsd
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House Republicans Create Special Committee To Harass Planned Parenthood
There's still no proof the family planning provider did anything wrong.
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Jennifer Bendery
White House & Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/07/2015 05:39 PM EDT | Edited: 1 hour ago
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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans created a special committee on Wednesday to investigate abortions, fetal tissue procurement and the use of federal funds at Planned Parenthood.
Lawmakers voted 242-184 on a resolution establishing the committee, which will function as an Energy and Commerce subcommittee and will have the power to subpoena documents and testimony. Its stated mission, among other things, is to examine "medical procedures and business practices used by entities involved in fetal tissue procurement" and "federal funding and support for abortion providers."
The special committee comes a few months after anti-abortion activists released a series of heavily edited undercover videos that purported to show the family planning provider breaking the law by selling fetal tissue after abortions. Multiple state investigations and a federal investigation by the Energy and Commerce Committee have so far been unable to find any facts to support that claim.
Planned Parenthood, which legally accepts money to cover the costs of transporting donated fetal tissue to medical researchers, has slammed the videos as "deceptively edited" and denies any wrongdoing. ........................
Jeff Love ?@JeffreyRLove 2h2 hours ago
@HuffPostPol of course they do.
@HuffPostPol this is why republican party ignorance go cost them in the next year elections
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Wanda Knipp ?@waterlilly1997 2h2 hours ago
@HuffPostPol They are a bunch of jokers. Keep spending our money over nothing and doing nothing for our country.
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Vickie Springer ?@VickieSpringer 2h2 hours ago
@HuffPostPol Dems will be screaming to high heaven now!
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Ms. Net ?@NETRetired 2h2 hours ago
@HuffPostPol: @HouseGOP create special committee to harass @PPact http://huff.to/1VEDpsd So tax $$ wasted! @dscc
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dora wiilliams ?@rodeodance 1m1 minute ago
@HuffPostPol This is SSSSSSSo wrong and unethical
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riversedge
(70,270 posts)Sam_Fields
(305 posts)There is no reason to play into the republicans crazy games. They hate women having the freedom not to give birth to unwanted children.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)Taxpayers money used for GOP political gain, it's sickening! Some needs to find out how much they have wasted with their witch hunts.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)That they were going to give Planned Parenthood the Benghazi treatment?
riversedge
(70,270 posts)video at link also
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/01/mccarthy-admits-planned-parenthood-hearings-purpose-political-benghazi-probe.html
Kevin McCarthy Screws Up Again By Admitting Planned Parenthood Attack Is A GOP Stunt
By: Sarah Jones
Thursday, October 1st, 2015, 1:36 pm
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is not quite ready to be Speaker of the House.
On CNN, the California Republican admitted that the Planned Parenthood hearings will serve the same partisan political agenda as the Benghazi probes.
Crowing about causing Hillary Clintons poll numbers to drop via the unprecedented length of the Republicans Benghazi hearings, McCarthy said the Planned Parenthood hearings will do the same thing. So, if we really want to be able to show what this Planned Parenthood has done, you see a few videos, so theres real question.
Essentially, they are using doctored videos to change the publics mind about abortion and defund Planned Parenthood.
Watch here:
Transcript via CNN:
MCCARTHY: Well, no, what you first have to do is lay out a plan. Im willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.
So, its not just a policy. Its also a media. And people have to join that. So, thats why, within a select committee think of this. When you look at poll numbers of Hillary Clinton, they have dropped.
TAPPER: Right.
MCCARTHY: Unfavorables pretty high, because people say they dont trust her.
They dont trust her because of what they found out about the server and everything else. Would you ever have found that out had you not gathered the information from the Benghazi Select Committee? So, if we really want to be able to show what this Planned Parenthood has done, you see a few videos, so theres real question.
Have the select committee get all the information, all the hearings, so the public can see that. Thats what you win the argument to win the vote.
Women who assault unborn children will be punished if it was unlawful action or emission.
This admission makes sense given that the Republicans worked with the activist group who made the videos, before they were ever released. The point of these doctored videos is to justify hearings which can dig into anything and everything, as we saw Republicans do during Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards testimony.
Both the Benghazi probe and now this Planned Parenthood probe are political stunts meant to get free air time for Republican propaganda, in order to change the minds of the voters. .............
NonMetro
(631 posts)....and hired David Daleiden to do the dirty work, told him exactly how to do it, and what results they expected! As far as I know, Daleiden has no visible means of support. So, where did he get the money to fund this three year project and keep up with his own expenses?
world wide wally
(21,751 posts)"The American people would like to see the unedited version of that PP tape"
Even our news media would eventually have to explain why they are asking that.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Welfare, disability, unemployment...all have to go!
Tax cuts for the rich and their coprorations...no problem!
BlueMTexpat
(15,370 posts)GOPers create special committee to harass the NRA.
Now that one I could support.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)DFW
(54,426 posts)With a fart.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Register to vote people!
niyad
(113,505 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)But I guess you need to keep the base "satisfied".
NonMetro
(631 posts)A McCarthy (Joe) tactic to "get" Planned Parenthood. Who's next on their hit list? The American people are not safe with these neo-Nazi's in power. It's a witch hunt!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Maybe pull the money from South Carolina disaster aid.
They did the same for all other aid packages so fuck 'em!
rladdi
(581 posts)They complain about our debt, but the create the biggest debt. Republicans think the tax payers and voters are dumb, but in 2016 we will show them who is in charge. Its the voters.
UTUSN
(70,723 posts)Madmiddle
(459 posts)simply wipe your ass on their fraudulent sopoena ,send it back; addressy uninterested.
Madmiddle
(459 posts)and he is proof of how utterly stupid R's truly are. I wouldn't hire any of those idiots to run a lemonaid stand.