[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 1, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, there are smart cuts and there are dumb cuts. 
The majority's continuing resolution, the reception it has received, 
suggests that it's full of dumb cuts. It has been rejected by pretty 
much everybody. Outright rejection to concerned hilarity is how it's 
been greeted by investment banks, by economists, by people who think 
about this stuff.
  But there is something worse than a dumb cut, and that's a 
counterproductive cut. In a misguided effort to reduce the number of 
abortions in this country, the Republican majority zeroed out title X 
funding for Planned Parenthood.
  I have a Planned Parenthood office down the hall from my 
congressional office in Bridgeport. I see women coming through there 
mainly to learn about birth control, to be responsible about their 
reproductive lives, to be tested for STDs.
  Remember, 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's activities is abortion. 
There are estimates that zeroing out title X, which the majority has 
done, will cause 400,000 more abortions in this country. That's 
counterproductive, it's wrong, and I would urge this House to reject a 
very bad idea.

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