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riversedge

(70,260 posts)
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 08:12 PM Oct 2015

House Republicans create special committee to harass Planned Parenthood



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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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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House Republicans create special committee to harass Planned Parenthood (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2015 OP
This is just another-taxpayer Benghazi type committee! riversedge Oct 2015 #1
Any person subpoenead to testify should just plead the fifth. Sam_Fields Oct 2015 #2
Benghazi! nt daredtowork Oct 2015 #3
Millions more down the toilet Andy823 Oct 2015 #4
Benghazi committee is 4.6 Million and counting. This committee will be given $$ also. riversedge Oct 2015 #5
Wasn't that part of McCarthy's boast? Dale Neiburg Oct 2015 #6
Kevin McCarthy Screws Up Again By Admitting Planned Parenthood Attack Is A GOP Stunt riversedge Oct 2015 #11
I'd Be Willing To Bet The RNC Planned This Whole Smear Campaign Against PP Three Years Ago NonMetro Oct 2015 #19
Every last answer to these assholes should be, world wide wally Oct 2015 #7
If it helps people, then they have to get rid of it! d_legendary1 Oct 2015 #8
What we will never see ... BlueMTexpat Oct 2015 #9
Another ACORN. . . B Calm Oct 2015 #10
Looks like Bonehead wants to go out in the style with which he has grown accustomed: DFW Oct 2015 #12
Republis are weirdos, plain and simple. ffr Oct 2015 #13
ah, the BORTGHAZI committee, run by a bunch of woman-hating gynoticians. niyad Oct 2015 #14
More circle jerks than at a Skull and Bones Initiation Ritual Midnight Writer Oct 2015 #15
This Is An Abuse Of Power! NonMetro Oct 2015 #16
Where are the offsets? SCVDem Oct 2015 #17
Republicans love to waste our tax dollars, they have been doing it every time they are in power. rladdi Oct 2015 #18
Funny/odd how they whined about being "targeted" for their fake-charity IRS clubs n/t UTUSN Oct 2015 #20
Law makers called up, Madmiddle Oct 2015 #21
He's the guy the R's look up to Madmiddle Oct 2015 #22

Sam_Fields

(305 posts)
2. Any person subpoenead to testify should just plead the fifth.
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 09:59 PM
Oct 2015

There is no reason to play into the republicans crazy games. They hate women having the freedom not to give birth to unwanted children.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
4. Millions more down the toilet
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 10:10 PM
Oct 2015

Taxpayers money used for GOP political gain, it's sickening! Some needs to find out how much they have wasted with their witch hunts.

Dale Neiburg

(698 posts)
6. Wasn't that part of McCarthy's boast?
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 05:36 AM
Oct 2015

That they were going to give Planned Parenthood the Benghazi treatment?

riversedge

(70,260 posts)
11. Kevin McCarthy Screws Up Again By Admitting Planned Parenthood Attack Is A GOP Stunt
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 03:21 PM
Oct 2015

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 Clinton’s 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 there’s real question.”

Essentially, they are using doctored videos to change the public’s 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. I’m willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.

So, it’s not just a policy. It’s also a media. And people have to join that. So, that’s 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 don’t trust her.

They don’t 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 there’s real question.

Have the select committee get all the information, all the hearings, so the public can see that. That’s 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)
19. I'd Be Willing To Bet The RNC Planned This Whole Smear Campaign Against PP Three Years Ago
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 09:47 PM
Oct 2015

....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

(21,749 posts)
7. Every last answer to these assholes should be,
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 12:34 PM
Oct 2015

"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)
8. If it helps people, then they have to get rid of it!
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:26 PM
Oct 2015

Welfare, disability, unemployment...all have to go!

Tax cuts for the rich and their coprorations...no problem!

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
9. What we will never see ...
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 01:29 PM
Oct 2015

GOPers create special committee to harass the NRA.

Now that one I could support.

Midnight Writer

(21,771 posts)
15. More circle jerks than at a Skull and Bones Initiation Ritual
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:49 AM
Oct 2015

But I guess you need to keep the base "satisfied".

NonMetro

(631 posts)
16. This Is An Abuse Of Power!
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 03:34 PM
Oct 2015

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)
17. Where are the offsets?
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 08:00 PM
Oct 2015

Maybe pull the money from South Carolina disaster aid.

They did the same for all other aid packages so fuck 'em!

rladdi

(581 posts)
18. Republicans love to waste our tax dollars, they have been doing it every time they are in power.
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 07:40 PM
Oct 2015

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.

 

Madmiddle

(459 posts)
21. Law makers called up,
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:00 AM
Oct 2015

simply wipe your ass on their fraudulent sopoena ,send it back; addressy uninterested.

 

Madmiddle

(459 posts)
22. He's the guy the R's look up to
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:08 AM
Oct 2015

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.

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