[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5856]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           PLANNED PARENTHOOD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
California (Mr. LaMalfa) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, as you know, the House adjourned for the 
month of August for time to be in the districts with our constituents.
  Before that, we saw the breaking story in mid-July of Planned 
Parenthood and the videos that came out of the barbaric practices that 
were happening in there on aborted babies. Indeed, America was 
horrified as each of the videos unfolded to see that these are the 
practices that our tax dollars are somehow helping to fund in that 
organization.
  The House did not completely take time away from Washington. Indeed, 
several of our committees started immediately taking action in July and 
then during August with letters transmitted to Planned Parenthood and 
others to make this more well known to the public, letters to invite 
them to explain themselves to committees--Energy and Commerce 
Committee, Judiciary Committee, Oversight and Government Reform 
Committee--which upon each video, as they became available to the 
public, Americans were more and more horrified with what was going on.
  The actions in the House were to ask the first person in the first 
video, Dr. Nucatola, to come and present her case of what that video 
was about and why it happened to the committee.
  Planned Parenthood responded that they probably wouldn't make Dr. 
Nucatola available; but indeed, finally, a month later, on August 27, 
the committee was able--a month later--to interview Dr. Nucatola.
  Today, the Judiciary Committee will resume these hearings this 
morning, almost as we speak now. Indeed, later on, Oversight and 
Government Reform later this week and Energy and Commerce Committee 
this week, will be doing more investigations, more hearings, on this, 
as is our prerogative in the House with Oversight and Government Reform 
because the American people, no matter how they feel about the question 
on abortion, post-abortion, when Planned Parenthood appears to most 
people to now be the equivalent of a chop shop for baby parts, they are 
outraged. They are going: Why are my tax dollars going to this 
organization?
  This isn't about women's health. There are lots of options for the 
health issues that women do need that don't have to be funded by an 
organization that is doing these practices.

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  The House will continue its work on the investigations that are 
needed here, and we will continue on our work, seeing to it that tax 
dollars can be pulled back from supporting such an organization with 
such barbaric practices and with such a callous attitude as they 
discuss them over a glass of wine, on camera, at lunch. Indeed, this is 
our time in Congress, through this investigative process, to stand up 
for life, for what is right, for what is moral, and we dare not shirk 
from that responsibility.

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