Congressional Record, Volume 161 Issue 135 (Friday, September 18, 2015)

[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 135 (Friday, September 18, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H6152-H6167]
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DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACT OF 2015

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 421, I
call up the bill (H.R. 3134) to provide for a moratorium on Federal
funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and ask for
its immediate consideration in the House.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 421, the
amendment printed in House Report 114-262 is adopted and the bill, as
amended, is considered read.
The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:

H.R. 3134

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Defund Planned Parenthood
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds the following:
(1) State and county health departments, community health
centers, hospitals, physicians offices, and other entities
currently provide, and will continue to provide, health
services to women. Such health services include relevant
diagnostic laboratory and radiology services, well-child
care, prenatal and postpartum care, immunization, family
planning services (including contraception), cervical and
breast cancer screenings and referrals, and sexually
transmitted disease testing.
(2) Many such entities provide services to all persons,
regardless of the person's ability to pay, and provide
services in medically underserved areas and to medically
underserved populations.
(3) All funds that are no longer available to Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. and its affiliates and
clinics pursuant to this Act will continue to be made
available to other eligible entities to provide women's
health care services.
(4) Funds authorized to be appropriated, and appropriated,
by section 4 are offset by the funding limitation under
section 3(a).

SEC. 3. MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL FUNDING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD
FEDERATION OF AMERICA, INC.

(a) In General.--For the one-year period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this Act, subject to subsection (b),
no funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law may be
made available for any purpose to Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc., or any affiliate or clinic of
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., unless such
entities certify that Planned Parenthood Federation of
America affiliates and clinics will not perform, and will not
provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an
abortion during such period.
(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to an
abortion--
(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or
incest; or
(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical
disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as
certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death
unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering
physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy
itself.
(c) Repayment.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services
and the Secretary of Agriculture shall seek repayment of any
Federal assistance received by Planned Parenthood Federation
of America, Inc., or any affiliate or clinic of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., if it violates the
terms of the certification required by subsection (a) during
the period specified in subsection (a).

SEC. 4. FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated,
and appropriated, $235,000,000 for the community health
center program under section 330 of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 254b), in addition to any other funds made
available to such program, for the period for which the
funding limitation under section 3(a) applies.
(b) Limitation.--None of the funds authorized or
appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) may be expended for
an abortion other than as described in section 3(b).

SEC. 5. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce overall
Federal funding available in support of women's health.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour
equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member
of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their designee.
The gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the gentlewoman
from Florida (Ms. Castor) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Tennessee.

General Leave

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all
Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks
and to include extraneous material on H.R. 3134.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Tennessee?
There was no objection.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
I rise in strong support of H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood
Act of 2015.
Madam Speaker, we all remember the images of Kermit Gosnell killing
babies who were born alive after a botched abortion.
We know that those are sickening, and we know that they have renewed
the demand for accountability from the American people. That is why we
come before you today with H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act
of 2015.
New documentation of these heinous practices that we have seen in
videos, videos that have come out of Planned Parenthood abortion
clinics of harvesting the body parts of babies as part of the abortion
process, have raised serious questions about the possible systematic
and repeated violation of State and Federal laws.
H.R. 3134 provides a 1-year moratorium, a freezing--a freezing--on
the Federal funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America and all
of its affiliates while investigations are ongoing regarding the
practices of the abortion industry.
Madam Speaker, most people think that is common sense. If there is
reason to investigate, then there is reason to withhold taxpayer
dollars during that period of time. Those dollars would be given to
other facilities that provide women's health services.
The American taxpayer has been very clear for a long time that they
do not want taxpayer money spent on abortion; 68 percent of Americans
oppose it. What is so interesting to me is that we know that 71 percent
of all millennials oppose this.
I would remind my colleagues, Madam Speaker, there is no difference
between men and women on this. There is bipartisan opposition from men
and women to this practice. Additionally, the majority of Americans are
opposed to the sale of body parts of babies obtained after abortion.
So the discussion today is not about videos or women's health access.
We know there are other ways to get that access. It is about our most
basic right. It is about the right to life.
It is also about doing what the taxpayers sent us to D.C. to do. It
is also about continuing the process to protect our most vulnerable
citizens, innocent little babies.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the ``Deny Women Health
Care Act.''
Madam Speaker, congressional approval ratings are at an all-time low,
and here is another example of why:
Republicans in Congress have failed to fulfill their fundamental
responsibility to our great Nation again.
Republicans have pushed America to the brink of another government
shutdown, and we are a mere 5 legislative days away.

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Republicans in Congress have refused to sit down and negotiate a
bipartisan appropriations plan despite the urging of Democrats,
business leaders, military servicemembers, and citizens all across
America.
The bill brought to the floor today is an attempt by Republican
leaders to distract the American public from their failure to do their
job.
Last spring, we urged Republicans in Congress to sit down and hammer
out an appropriations plan. They refused.
Instead, the Congress adjourned at the end of July. Nothing happened
in August. Nothing has happened since the Congress has returned after
Labor Day.
Now the Republican dysfunction in this House will have very serious
consequences for our neighbors back home.
A Republican shutdown would hurt thousands of disabled veterans,
disadvantaged children, small businesses, working families, and
taxpayers.
The last time Republicans shut down the government for 16 days, the
economy lost $24 billion and 120,000 private sector jobs.
Here is what happened: The Republican shutdown stalled veterans
disability claims, creating additional needless delays for our heroes
seeking help.
Hundreds of critically sick Americans were prevented from enrolling
in the NIH clinical trials, with 98 percent of the National Science
Foundation, nearly three-quarters of NIH, and two-thirds of CDC
employees furloughed.
Head Start grantees, serving thousands of children, were forced to
close. American entrepreneurs and small businesses were cut off from
millions of dollars in SBA loans.
Small businesses with government contracts faced abrupt payment
delays and cutbacks. Almost $4 billion in IRS refunds were delayed.
The Republican Congress' continuing dysfunction and inability to
govern are having real impacts on hard-working Americans. The American
people are tired of their relentless failure to govern and the culture
of crisis.
Again and again Republicans have chosen to put their radical special
interest agenda ahead of the priorities of hard-working Americans.
The American people deserve better, especially in this case, because
the Deny Women Health Care Act is a cynical attack on the ability of
women across America to receive the health services that they need at
trusted Planned Parenthood clinics.

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I know many are passionate about these personal issues. That is why
the Republicans advance this bill on this topic. They know it is sure
to inflame passions. But to date, despite congressional inquiries into
these false videotapes, there has been no wrongdoing uncovered
whatsoever, no evidence to substantiate the allegations. What has
emerged since the false videos were posted on YouTube is a coordinated,
broad-based smear campaign based upon false, manufactured videos that
are full of distortions and misinformation.
The bill is one more assault in the long list of Republican assaults
on women's health care over the last two decades because simply
defunding Planned Parenthood would leave millions of American women
without key preventative services, including birth control, family
planning, lifesaving cancer screenings, testing and treatment of
infections, well-women exams, and advice on family planning.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I was beginning to think that we were
off on a different bill there for just a moment.
Madam Speaker, I yield 15 seconds to myself to respond.
Madam Speaker, we are not on a bill about a government shutdown. We
are on a bill that will make certain that women have access to health
care, H.R. 3134. I will remind my colleagues that it does remove the
funds from Planned Parenthood, and it does enable them to go to women's
health clinics.
Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee
(Mrs. Black), who is the author of this legislation and has been such
an advocate for addressing women's healthcare needs.
Mrs. BLACK. Madam Speaker, as a nurse for more than 40 years and a
believer in the God-given purpose of every human being, I am
passionately pro-life. But do you know what? You don't have to agree
with me to support this bill. No matter our views on abortion or the
party label beside our name, we should all have an interest in ensuring
that laws are followed and that the taxpayer dollars are spent
responsibly. If a law is broken, particularly by those receiving
government money, that should be remedied. That is not a political
statement. That, quite literally, is our job here in Congress.
Two months ago, Madam Speaker, a series of undercover videos were
released implicating Planned Parenthood in the illegal trafficking of
aborted baby tissue and organs. Now, some of my colleagues have tried
to dismiss these videos even without ever watching them. I get it. It
is easier to try to discredit the source than to defend what is
happening on these tapes.
Well, Madam Speaker, I did watch these videos, and I saw full
conversations of Planned Parenthood employees in their own words
discussing potentially lawbreaking activities. Congressional
investigations are underway, but there are more than enough lingering
questions to stop the flow of money--taxpayer dollars--to this abortion
giant until our work is complete.
For this reason, I have introduced the Defund Planned Parenthood Act
of 2015. This legislation enacts a 1-year moratorium on all Federal
money going to Planned Parenthood. It does not reduce women's health
funding by a single dime. As a matter of fact, we actually increase
women's healthcare funding by over $200 million. Instead, this
legislation reallocates the funding to more than 13,500 facilities
nationwide that provide true preventative care to those who need it the
most, and they do not perform abortions.
What is more, Planned Parenthood can get their money back. Read the
bill. They can get their money back if they fully commit to what they
talk about in doing women's health care and stop performing abortions
for this year.
Madam Speaker, if there exists even a possibility that Planned
Parenthood violated our laws, as I believe they did, then pro-life and
pro-choice Members of Congress alike must act to reallocate the funds
now so that we are not trying to chase down the taxpayer dollars that
already went out the door later on. This is ensuring that our laws are
followed, that Americans know how their money is being spent, and that
the conscience rights of taxpayers are respected.
Madam Speaker, I urge a ``yes'' vote on H.R. 3134.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I will reiterate again, there
is no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing, and I maintain that this
is a distraction from the Republican's fundamental failure to pass a
budget 5 legislative days before a government shutdown.
Madam Speaker, I am honored to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce
Committee.
Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, I listened to the previous Republican
speaker, and the deception that she poses to this Congress is
unbelievable in my opinion.
First of all, she talks about these videos which we know have been
misleading--edited, all kinds of changes have been made to them. The
accuracy of them is totally unacceptable. They are not accurate. Then
she says, well, just because they may be accurate that we should pass
this bill defunding Planned Parenthood.
Well, when did this Congress get into the business of saying, well,
before we decided whether you have actually broken the law and before
we have any evidence that you have done so, we are just going to shut
you down? That is not the way we operate. That is not due process. That
is not the American way.
Then, Madam Speaker, she suggests that somehow this money is going to
be given to other providers. I think she is probably talking about
community health centers. Well, I will tell you, from my own experience
with community health centers, that they don't have the ability to
provide the women's health needs that are being proposed here that are
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by Planned Parenthood. That is not going to happen. Those women are
going to be deprived of health care.
So let's not continue with this deception about what is actually
going on here. The Republicans just want to shut the government down if
we don't defund Planned Parenthood. That is what they are all about.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee
and vice chair of the Health Subcommittee.
Mr. GUTHRIE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3134.
This bill would defund Planned Parenthood and its clinics for 1 full
year. This summer, a series of disturbing videos shined a light on the
gruesome practice being done in clinics across the country. No one has
ever disputed that the employees of Planned Parenthood said what they
said in the video. These videos have shocked and appalled countless
Americans.
Federal dollars should not be going to an agency that is involved in
such a horrific and disturbing practice. I have voted in the past to
defund Planned Parenthood, and I will do so again today.
Madam Speaker, life is a precious gift, and I firmly believe we
should do all we can to advance and support it. Today, I urge my
colleagues to support this legislation to stop Planned Parenthood from
continuing these practices.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel).
Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill. We are
here because some have again chosen to reignite the same tired battles
of years past--and bring our government to the brink of shutdown--to
restrict women's control over their own health and bodies. I should not
be deciding what is best for a woman's health. She should, and her
doctor should.
That we are even having this debate--based on contrived,
unsubstantiated allegations--about an organization that provides
critical care to more than 2 million Americans is not only outrageous,
it is downright irresponsible.
More than half of Planned Parenthood centers are in rural or
medically underserved areas where access to health care is already too
limited. Yet my colleagues want to make it even harder for women and
men there to access HIV and STI tests, breast cancer screenings,
cervical cancer screenings, and other lifesaving services.
Madam Speaker, this attempt to demonize Planned Parenthood is
disgraceful.
Again, it is important to underscore that Federal insurance coverage
of abortion is already restricted, so to defund Planned Parenthood is
to defund the preventative services that keep our constituents healthy.
I urge a ``no'' vote.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 10 seconds to myself to
respond.
Again, Madam Speaker, refocusing us on the bill, we are talking about
being certain that there is access to health care. Cancer screenings
and prevention services from Planned Parenthood have been cut in half
over the past 7 years. They do not perform mammograms. They perform
over 300,000 abortions annually.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr.
Bilirakis), the vice chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and a
member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Mr. BILIRAKIS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the Defund
Planned Parenthood Act, a bill I am proud to cosponsor.
Madam Speaker, as the Energy and Commerce Committee continues its
investigation into the troubling Planned Parenthood videos, it is
crucial we do everything in our power to protect human life and hold
organizations such as Planned Parenthood accountable.
With this legislation, we have the opportunity to both save lives and
respect the rights of the American people. Taxpayers should not be
forced to financially support organizations whose behavior is at best
unethical and possibly illegal.
When it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood, the issue should not
be partisan. This is about protecting the rights of taxpayers, but
also, more importantly, protecting the basic right of human life.
Madam Speaker, I will continue to give a voice to our most fragile
Americans who cannot speak for themselves. I thank Representative Black
for her efforts on this important piece of legislation, and I urge my
colleagues to support it.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the
gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette).
Ms. DeGETTE. Madam Speaker, Planned Parenthood provides basic health
services to millions of Americans: Pap smears, breast cancer
screenings, family planning, and birth control. In fact, there were
over 4 million visits to Planned Parenthood clinics last year, and over
90 percent of this was basic women's health care and not abortions.
So why are we talking about this today? Why are we talking about this
legislation?
Planned Parenthood does these services and no Federal funds are spent
on abortion services that Planned Parenthood does provide, but yet the
majority will take the radical step of denying women the basic health
care they need. This radical agenda is wrong. It is wrong for American
women, and it is wrong for us when the Federal budget expires in just
13 days.
Madam Speaker, I, too, have reviewed the videotapes. Our committee
reviewed the videotapes, and, as Ms. Castor said--and it bears
repeating--no wrongdoing was shown. There are no criminal charges.
There are no charges at all that are pending whatsoever against Planned
Parenthood.
Madam Speaker, yesterday in the Energy and Commerce Committee, my
Republican colleagues in their radical effort went so far as to show a
photo of a stillborn baby, implying that that baby was a fetus being
used for fetal tissue development. What is worse, that photo was shown
without the woman's consent. It had no relation to Planned Parenthood.
It was used without the mother's consent.
What I want to know from the majority: Is this the evidence that you
are using to decide that you are going to deny funding for Planned
Parenthood and all the well-women visits women use?
Madam Speaker, my colleagues ought to be ashamed of showing this, and
my colleagues ought to be ashamed of putting this bill on the floor
today. We are seeing shamelessness right here on the floor today.
My colleagues on the other side are trying to do everything they can
to insert themselves between American women and their right to make
their own healthcare decisions. It is wrong, and I urge a ``no'' vote
on this legislation.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I will never be ashamed of standing up
and defending life--ever--and I find it so interesting that our efforts
to protect life are termed ``radical.'' That is an interesting turn of
events, if I say so myself.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.
Bucshon), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Mr. BUCSHON. Madam Speaker, with all due respect, a radical agenda is
protecting an organization that dismembers body parts and sells them
for profit.
For the record, I am probably the only Member of this body to have
operated on babies as young as 23 weeks' gestation. In fact, the
smallest baby I operated on weighed only 650 grams.
As a physician, I spent my career caring for patients regardless of
their situations. So I take access to health care very seriously.
I find it troubling that those on the other side, most of whom have
never spent a day caring for patients, continue to mislead the American
people about the facts of Planned Parenthood.
Here are a few: By its own statistics, Planned Parenthood only treats
2 percent of the Nation's women for any reason.
Planned Parenthood doesn't offer women some of the most basic primary
care. It doesn't provide services like mammograms, cardiovascular blood
tests, or bone mass measurements.

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Over the past 10 years, Planned Parenthood cut cancer screenings by
half while it increased abortion services by 40 percent.
Across the country, we have 13,000 federally qualified or rural
health centers that can provide basic health services compared to only
700 Planned Parenthood facilities that really don't provide these
services at all.
Madam Speaker, taxpayers should not be forced to fund this
organization when we have so many other alternatives.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, the previous speaker said something
completely false. Planned Parenthood does not sell fetal tissue.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Illinois will suspend.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I withdraw.
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Madam Speaker, a complete falsehood was just stated.
Planned Parenthood does not sell any body parts for profit. That is a
fact.
So here we go again: Republicans threatening to shut down the
government in order to deny women access to health care. When the
Republicans took control of the House in 2011, the first thing they did
was nearly shut down the government over funding for Planned
Parenthood, and 4 years later, Republicans are once again seriously
considering shutting down the government over the exact same thing.
This time, they have manufactured a witch hunt based on heavily
edited videos that were clearly intended to mislead the public and the
Congress. They have wasted time and resources on futile investigations
that have produced absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of
Planned Parenthood. In contrast, there is growing evidence that The
Center for Medical Progress broke several laws.
I recently sent a letter to the Department of Justice and to the
California Attorney General, asking them to investigate the practices
of this organization.
My letter raises concerns about fake identification that was used to
gain access to Planned Parenthood facilities, fraudulent tax documents
that were filed to create a fake corporate entity, and violations of
California's Invasion of Privacy Act.
In response, the California Attorney General has initiated an
investigation. There are also several legal actions pending against The
Center for Medical Progress.
Enough is enough. I urge my colleagues to oppose this harmful bill
for women's health.
Here we go again--Republicans threatening to shut down the government
to deny women access to health care.
When the Republicans took control of the House in 2011, the first
thing they did was nearly shut down the government over funding for
Planned Parenthood.
Four years later, Republicans are once again seriously considering
shutting down the government over the exact same thing.
This time, they've manufactured a witch hunt based on heavily edited
videos that were clearly intended to misled the public and Congress.
They've wasted time and resources on futile investigations that have
produced absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of Planned
Parenthood.
In contrast, there is growing evidence that the Center for Medical
Progress broke several laws.
I recently sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the
California Attorney General asking them to investigate the potentially
illegal practices of this organization.
My letter raises concerns about fake identification that was used to
gain access to Planned Parenthood facilities, fraudulent tax documents
that were filed to create a fake corporate entity, and violations of
California's Invasion of Privacy Act.
In response, the California AG has initiated an investigation. There
are also several legal actions pending against the Center for Medical
Progress.
But we all know that Republicans are not really interested in the
truth here. This entire charade is a thinly veiled attempt to erode a
woman's ability to make decisions about her own body.
For proof, look no further than their budget proposal.
Their budget eliminated Title X, the only federal grant program
dedicated to providing women with family planning services, and cuts
the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program by over 80 percent--programs that
would reduce the need for abortion.
Republicans have made it clear that women are fair game. They can't
even pass a continuing resolution without interfering in the personal
lives of American women.
Republicans can't overturn Roe v. Wade so they try every other way
possible to erode this fundamental right.
They try to cut off funding to the clinics that provide abortions,
they try to criminalize doctors who perform abortions, and they
restrict access for millions of women every year through the Hyde
Amendment.
Enough is enough. I strongly urge my colleagues to oppose this
terrible bill and to stop interfering in the personal lives of American
women.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman
from North Carolina (Mrs. Ellmers), a member of the Energy and Commerce
Committee and the chairman of the Republican Women's Policy Committee.
Mrs. ELLMERS of North Carolina. I thank the gentlewoman from
Tennessee for holding this important discussion today.
I would like to thank Chairman Upton, Chairman Pitts, and the full
committee and staff of Energy and Commerce for their hard work.
Madam Speaker, I support H.R. 3134, and I proposed an amendment to be
included within that bill, which redirects $235 million to health
centers across this country.
I am a nurse, and my husband is a general surgeon. One of our
favorite places in the world is our back porch in Dunn, North Carolina,
where we sip scuppernong wine and have a wonderful time, and we discuss
good health care in this country. Let me tell you and the American
people that Planned Parenthood is not good health care.
You can see that this chart clearly shows that the 13,000 federally
qualified healthcare centers in this country provide comprehensive
health care for women.
You can see this chart is just a mere example of 17 provided basic
healthcare services for women to Planned Parenthood's 6.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield the gentlewoman an additional 30 seconds.
Mrs. ELLMERS of North Carolina. I thank the gentlewoman.
Basically, what you have been told and what women in this country
have been told is a false choice for American women from Planned
Parenthood.
That false choice says that, if one Planned Parenthood facility is
defunded, thousands of women and children who are in need will go
without health care.
Let me tell you, if that false logic follows in Dunn, North Carolina,
it basically says, if there are 18 grocery stores and 1 closes its
doors, thousands of families, including my own, will starve.
This is absolutely untrue. We need to support everything we can in
this country for good women's health care. This chart provides the
actual truth--the truth. Good health care takes care of the whole
woman, not just parts.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has established that not
all services currently provided by Planned Parenthood could be
furnished by other health clinics and medical practitioners if Planned
Parenthood were defunded.
A George Washington University professor confirmed this in a column
this week. The reason is that so many of the services provided relate
to gynecological services and personal female healthcare needs.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from
Massachusetts (Mr. Kennedy).
Mr. KENNEDY. I thank my colleague from Florida for the recognition.
Madam Speaker, it is important that we do get our facts straight.
This year, over 2 million babies will be born to women on Medicaid.
That is nearly half of all of the births in this country.
At the same time, more than half of the Medicaid providers in our
country are not accepting new patients. That leaves hundreds of
thousands of expectant mothers without access to essential prenatal
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that is where Planned Parenthood comes in.
Beyond just prenatal care, they provide life-saving cancer
screenings, STD tests, and compassionate counseling to millions of
women, men, and families who often have nowhere else to turn for their
basic health needs.
Eighty percent of the patients that Planned Parenthood serves have
incomes at or below 150 percent of the poverty line.
Those patients are sitting inside waiting rooms at Planned Parenthood
centers across the Nation at this very moment who are facing some of
the most emotional decisions and challenging tests of their entire
lives.
The practitioners and nurses who will treat them won't just tend to
their immediate medical needs. They will make sure that the patient
knows that he or she is not alone.
If we pass this bill, we are turning our backs on those patients. We
are telling low-income families in every corner of this country that we
count their health and happiness less.
I urge my colleagues to consider those patients and the impact of
this legislation.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 5 seconds to respond.
For 98.5 percent of the pregnant women who received a pregnancy-
related service at Planned Parenthood, that service was an abortion.
I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), a
member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Mr. CRAMER. Madam Speaker, North Dakotans affirm life every day
through strong, stable family structures and a culture that values life
and that, frankly, values ending the circumstances that cause a woman
to believe that her best option is an abortion.
We have over 70,000 square miles and thousands of women who need
healthcare services, but we don't have a Planned Parenthood clinic
because North Dakota women somehow don't meet its business model.
There are, however, compassionate providers offering more
comprehensive services across my State. This map shows the localities
of 71 federally qualified health centers that provide quality care to
underserved and low-income women in rural and urban communities
throughout my State.
The patients who go through the doors of these clinics are treated as
valued community members, not as a fee for service and certainly not as
a $45 specimen.
This Congress and its relevant committees must complete a thorough
investigation of the disturbing accusations evidenced--yes, evidenced--
in the Planned Parenthood videos that we all have seen before another
taxpayer dollar goes to this controversial organization. These funds
can be better used to provide legitimate health services for women in
places like North Dakota.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Matsui).
Ms. MATSUI. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this bill,
the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, but we should call it the
``Depriving Women of their Health Care Act.''
This bill is just the latest political attack on millions of American
women. This bill is a step backward for our Nation's healthcare system.
Defunding Planned Parenthood would deprive American women and their
families of access to preventative services like cancer screenings and
access to contraception and to prenatal counseling that helps women
maintain healthy pregnancies.
Sadly, I am not surprised that my Republican colleagues continue this
relentless attack on the autonomy of women. We have seen it countless
times before: Congress telling this country that a politician's
judgment is superior to that of an American woman's.

What does surprise me, however, is that now Republicans are willing
to shut down our government and put our economy at risk in order to
deny women access to the healthcare providers of their choosing.
We can't allow Members of Congress to substitute their judgment for a
woman's right to make decisions about her own body.
This bill does nothing more than take away healthcare options for
low-income women because of a difference in beliefs over just 3 percent
of the many vital services that Planned Parenthood provides.
Congress needs to get back to work on the real issues facing American
women and their families.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the chairman of the Pro-Life Caucus.
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
Madam Speaker, undercover videos show and expose Planned Parenthood
directors cheerfully talking about dismemberment and crushing babies to
death all while altering abortion methods in a way that preserves
organs and body parts for sale.
Watch the videos.
One senior director who talks about preserving a liver says they use
ultrasound guidance because that is where they will know where to put
the forceps. Of course, forceps are used to literally rip the child to
pieces in what is called a dismemberment abortion.
One technician, Holly O'Donnell, talks about getting brain tissue.
She said her supervisor ``gave me the scissors and told me that I had
to cut down the middle of the face. I can't even describe,'' she says,
``what that feels like.''
Some of our colleagues on the other side have said that there is no
evidence. Watch the videos. There is ample evidence.
I would suggest and I would ask Congresswoman Castor to join us in a
letter that asks the Attorney General of the United States to
investigate this. Will you?
I yield to the gentlewoman.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, the repeated reference to these
false videos is a true disservice to this Congress and to the people
all across America. These false claims against Planned Parenthood have
been widely discredited.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Again, the repeated references to these false videos do a real
disservice to this Congress and to people all across America. The false
claims against Planned Parenthood have been widely discredited.
The videos that so many have referenced are heavily edited. They have
edited content out, and they have edited false images in.
Politicians who are latching onto this smear campaign do so to
further their personal agendas to the detriment of women's health care
across America.
What has happened here since these videos were released in July is a
coordinated smear campaign against trusted Planned Parenthood clinics.
Let me give you some evidence directly from my home State of Florida.

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In July, with absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing, Florida
Republican Governor Rick Scott ordered investigations of Planned
Parenthood clinics. It had all the trappings of a witch hunt.
In August, after the Agency for Health Care Administration had
determined and written a draft press release that said: ``However,
there is no evidence of the mishandling of fetal remains at any of the
16 clinics we investigated across the State.''
That didn't fit Governor Scott's political narrative, so his office
scrubbed the press release of that language.
I submit for the Record a copy of the press release that was drafted
by the Agency for Health Care Administration for Florida before
Governor Scott's office scrubbed the language on the finding.

[For Immediate Release--Aug. 5, 2015]

Original Proposed Release From AHCA to the Governor's Office

Planned Parenthood Inspections Find Deficiencies at Clinics

Agency findings include issues with the record keeping of fetal remains
at one clinic and unlicensed procedures being performed at three
clinics

Tallahassee, FL.--Our investigations last week into Planned
Parenthood clinics found three facilities performing
procedures beyond their licensing authority, as well as one
facility not keeping proper logs relating to fetal remains.
However, there is no evidence of the mishandling of fetal
remains at any of the 16 clinics we investigated across the
state.

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[For Immediate Release--Aug. 5, 2015]

Final Versions That Was Released to the Media

Planned Parenthood Inspections Find Deficiencies at Clinics

Agency findings include issues with the record keeping of fetal remains
at one clinic and unlicensed procedures being performed at three
clinics

Ms. CASTOR of Florida. In fact, the press secretary for the agency
said: ``I would have thought a line on no handling of fetal remains
would be included, as that is what questions will be on.''
The agency's secretary wrote back, and she said she agreed.
Reporters subsequently obtained the scrubbed press release.
Apparently, these had to go to the Governor's office to be purified and
sanctified.
What happened earlier this week is that the communications director
for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration resigned. This is
another example of the coordinated smear campaign based upon the false
videos that have captured attention. They are outrageous, but they are
false, and they have been proven to be false.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond.
We are hearing words such as ``denied,'' ``deprived,'' ``detriment''
to women's healthcare. We are increasing women's health care. Tennessee
has four Planned Parenthood clinics and 26 federally qualified health
clinics.
Also, I would remind my colleagues the investigation is ongoing. It
is ongoing. It started yesterday at Energy and Commerce. We will
continue through this to get to the bottom of it.
I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling), the
chairman of the Financial Services Committee.
Mr. HENSARLING. Madam Speaker, life, liberty, the pursuit of
happiness, as a people, we have no more sacred values; and the right to
life is foremost among these.
Recently, shocking, appalling, horrific videos have come to light
that show senior employees at Planned Parenthood casually discussing
the harvesting and selling of organs of aborted children in ways to
alter their procedures in order to ``obtain intact fetal cadavers,''
which they refer to as ``line items.''
In perhaps the most chilling video, we see one of these so-called
intact fetal cadavers with its heart still beating. Madam Speaker, its
heart was still beating.
Madam Speaker, whether one considers themselves pro-life or pro-
choice, can we not agree that the harvesting and trafficking of baby
organs violates the sanctity with which every child created in the
image of God is entitled to? How can a fair, civilized, and
compassionate society come to any other conclusion?
Madam Speaker, today I rise to plead with my colleagues to speak up
for the voiceless and the defenseless by voting to deny Planned
Parenthood further taxpayer subsidies for the harvesting of baby body
parts.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Capps).
Ms. CAPPS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in staunch opposition to this
dangerous bill. Planned Parenthood provides exactly the types of
interventions that prevent unintended pregnancies and the need for an
abortion in the first place, like birth control options and medically
accurate sexual health education.
If this bill becomes law, these important services Planned Parenthood
brings to our communities will disappear, and the health of our
communities will pay the price.
We keep hearing that the work of Planned Parenthood would be done by
other healthcare providers, mostly community health centers, and while
that might sound like an easy shift, it doesn't work that way.
Madam Speaker, I have a letter here from the California Primary Care
Association. In it, they write: ``Eliminating Planned Parenthood from
our State's comprehensive network of care would put untenable stress on
remaining providers. We do not have the capacity for such an increase
in care.''
This is the direct quote from the health centers that the majority
expects to pick up the slack if Planned Parenthood is defunded. It
would be untenable.
Supporters of this bill are willfully putting their heads in the
sand. They think it is no big deal to shut down hundreds of clinics
offering essential services that are not available anywhere else. They
think it is worth shutting down the government to achieve this goal.
This political theater has to stop.
We need to trust women and their healthcare providers to make their
own medical decisions. It is not the government's business.
I strongly urge a ``no'' vote on this dangerous bill.
I insert the letter from the California Primary Care Association into
the Record.

California Primary

Care Association,

Sacramento, CA, September 17, 2015.
Hon. Lois Capps,
House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Congresswoman Capps: The California Primary Care
Association has recently become aware of new legislation,
H.R. 3134 combined with the Ellmers amendment, by
Congresswoman Diane Black that would redirect federal funding
from Planned Parenthood to federally qualified health
centers. The purported goal of such legislation is to prevent
a decrease in federal funding for women's health services,
while putting a moratorium on Planned Parenthood as a
healthcare provider for a year while Congress conducts a full
investigation of the organization's activities.
As the state-wide representatives of community clinics and
health centers in California, who serve 5.6 million patients
annually, we believe this action would negatively impact the
health of our community.
Planned Parenthood currently operates 115 health centers in
California and serves nearly 800,000 patients through 1.5
million encounters annually. Eliminating Planned Parenthood
from our state's comprehensive network of care would put
untenable stress on remaining health centers. We do not have
the capacity for such an increase in care, even for a year,
and should Congress seek to extend the moratorium building
such capacity would require significant capital investment on
par with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
expansion.
Even then, the legislation would still eliminate patient's
ability to choose the provider with which they feel most
comfortable. Planned Parenthood is seen by many as women's
health centric, which provides their patients with a level of
comfort that cannot be easily replicated. The women's health
focus allows them to be a provider of choice to hundreds of
thousands of women who seek out a variety of services that
include well woman exams, breast exams, birth control and
sexually transmitted disease testing.
In 2013 alone, Planned Parenthood conducted 733,641 tests
for Chlamydia--the leading cause of preventable infertility--
that resulted in 37,014 positive results and follow-up
treatment.
Planned Parenthood is a vital component of the health care
system in California and for that reason, we are opposed to
legislation that will diminish their capacity to provide care
in our state. We respectfully request that you oppose this
legislation.
Sincerely,

Carmela Castellano Garcia, Esq.,

President and CEO,
California Primary Care Association.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr.
Boustany), who chairs the Subcommittee on Human Resources at Ways and
Means.
Mr. BOUSTANY. Madam Speaker, as a newly minted physician fresh out of
medical school, I took an oath to protect life. As a cardiovascular
surgeon, I worked day and night performing thousands of cardiovascular
operations on premature infants, all the way up to the elderly. Now, in
Congress, I intend to uphold that oath that I took to save life.
The practices we have seen described recently released in the
undercover videos of top Planned Parenthood executives detailing the
methods they employ to harvest tissues and organs during abortions
performed at these clinics is nothing short of atrocious.
After the release of the first video in July, I joined my pro-life
colleagues to call immediately for thorough investigations into this
activity, and now, these investigations are underway. The American
people deserve and they need to know the truth. While these
investigations are ongoing, it is important that we take action to
prevent taxpayer dollars from going to this type of activity.

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I have long supported legislation to end funding for Planned
Parenthood and am proud to be an original cosponsor of this bill. It is
a very important bill.
I urge my colleagues to defend the culture of life in this country,
and let's vote in favor of this bill.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Speier).
Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, Planned Parenthood provides 865,000 pap
smears and breast exams a year. That is more than the entire population
of States like Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota.
I want to introduce you, Members on the other side of the aisle, to
Colleen from Albany, New York, who is 27 years old. I want you to look
into her eyes, and I want you to tell me that you would rather see her
dead because Colleen went to Planned Parenthood because she was in
between jobs and sought health care.
She received a breast cancer exam at Planned Parenthood. She had
stage II breast cancer, and she is alive today because it was
identified at a Planned Parenthood clinic. They operated, and she is
healthy.
She is not the only one. There are 86,000 men and women who seek
services at Planned Parenthood every year for breast cancer or for pap
smears for cervical cancer who are identified as having a positive test
result. As a result, they get care--86,000. What you are saying is that
it is okay for 86,000 people to die because that is how they were
accessing their health care.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond
to some of the comments and to remind my colleagues this investigation
that we are conducting is ongoing.
Cancer screenings and prevention services have been cut in half at
Planned Parenthood over the past 7 years. They do not perform
mammograms; they outsource it. They perform over 300,000 abortions
annually; that is their own number.
Madam Speaker, 98.5 percent of the pregnant women who go there go for
an abortion.
At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Pitts), the chairman of the Health Subcommittee.
Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, this morning we are debating, actually, two
bills. One is the delay of funds to Planned Parenthood until the
investigation is over and redistributing that money to the rural and
federally qualified community health clinics of which there are over
13,000--only 656 Planned Parenthood clinics--and they actually do
women's health, like mammograms, as we have heard, and other issues,
not just refer. I would urge support for that.
The other bill we are debating, which is sometimes infants are born
alive after an abortion. We had two witnesses last week before the
Judiciary Committee who were survivors. One of them said she was in
contact with 203 other abortion survivors.
All we are doing is putting enforcement language, some penalties in
there because born alive is the law, but it is not enforced, and this
would permit that to be enforced.
Finally, with Pope Francis coming next week, he said: ``The defense
of the unborn life is closely linked to the defense of each and every
other human right. It involves the conviction that a human being is
always sacred and inviolable in any situation, every stage of
development.''
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, while the investigation may be
ongoing, there have been no cases of born alive. The one case from some
time ago, a doctor is in prison for that. This simply is not accurate.
Now, what we know from ongoing investigations here currently is there
has been no substantiated allegation against Planned Parenthood.
What we have seen is this Center for Medical Progress that posted
these YouTube video. They have made a number of misrepresentations that
may have broken several Federal and State laws, including violating
Federal tax laws, violating criminal laws, violating the Invasion of
Privacy Act out of California, violating California's penal code by
making false charitable solicitations.
Now, we have heard that the attorneys for the director, Mr. Daleiden,
for CMP, his attorneys have advised a Federal district court that he
intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment in the investigation of him for
his violation of Federal and State laws.
At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms.
Wasserman Schultz).
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong
opposition to the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015. This bill is
possibly the most dangerous bill for women's health to come to the
House floor of this Congress.
State and Federal investigations of Planned Parenthood have produced
no evidence of violations of laws or medical standards, and independent
auditors confirm the videos referenced were heavily altered.
What really happens in Planned Parenthood clinics every year is this:
2.7 million Americans receive critical health services, 78 percent of
which live below the poverty level; doctors deliver approximately
400,000 pap smear exams; and women receive nearly half a million breast
exams, including screenings to 88,000 women whose cancer was detected
early.
This legislation threatens those services and the health of patients,
including 7,000 women in my district annually who rely on Planned
Parenthood for health care.
As a woman, mother, and breast cancer survivor, I refuse to take that
threat lying down. Republicans' own investigations turned up nothing;
yet some of their Members are willing to risk women's lives just to
score political points. Enough is enough.
I urge all Members who truly value women's health to vote against
this outrageous witch hunt.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Colorado (Mr. Lamborn).
Mr. LAMBORN. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in
supporting H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
Recent videos released by brave whistleblowers have definitively
shown that it is well past time to defund Planned Parenthood. For far
too long and to the tune of one-half billion dollars a year, taxpayers
have been forced to subsidize Planned Parenthood's abortion on demand.
Thanks to these unsettling revelations, we now know that taxpayers
have also been subsidizing the trafficking of aborted baby body parts.
This is not health care, Madam Speaker.
There are over 13,000 publicly supported health centers in our
country that do provide excellent women's health care. In my home State
of Colorado, there are 240 such healthcare alternatives versus 21
Planned Parenthood locations.
This important legislation will not remove funds from women's health
care, but shift it to responsible providers. Taxpayers won't have to
fund Planned Parenthood's deplorable barbarism.
I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

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Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen).
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Speaker, this legislation is the latest attempt
to take essential healthcare services away from women.
Our Republican colleagues know that none of the Planned Parenthood
Federal funds are used for abortion, per the Hyde amendment. They know
there is no evidence that Planned Parenthood has violated any Federal
laws. They know that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services go to
essential cancer screenings, family planning counseling, pregnancy
tests, contraceptive care, and other things.
This bill will deny women those services. When this bill fails in the
Senate, our Republican colleagues are apparently prepared to shut down
the government in order to shut down those women's health services.
Madam Speaker, our Republican colleagues are entitled to their views,
but they should not harm our economy; they should not harm America's
women; they should not shut down the government to try to impose their
views on the country.
Madam Speaker, I rise to raise my opposition to H.R. 3134, Defund
Planned Parenthood

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Act of 2015. This bill would prohibit all federal funding for Planned
Parenthood health centers for one year.
Instead of using their majority to pass a clean budget and govern
responsibly, the Republicans are willing to hold our country hostage to
further their harmful agenda against women.
The Defund Planned Parenthood Act is just another shameful attempt to
take essential healthcare services away from women. Republicans are so
focused on defunding Planned Parenthood that they are willing to shut
down the government again, and cause billions of dollars of damage to
our economy.
Planned Parenthood has been investigated multiple times and each
investigation has shown that Planned Parenthood has not violated any
federal laws. Moreover none of Planned Parenthood's federal funds are
used to perform abortions, in accordance with the Hyde Amendment.
Republicans are ignoring facts and relying on doctored footage to
continue their crusade against women's healthcare.
This bill will have a devastating impact on women. Approximately one
in five American women, in her lifetime, has relied on a Planned
Parenthood center for care. It serves a total of 2.7 million patients
per year--women and men.
More than ninety percent of their much-needed services go toward
providing essential health services that includes contraceptive care,
family planning counseling, pregnancy tests, prenatal care, and
essential cancer screenings.
There are not enough community health centers to care for all of
those who would lose access to healthcare if this bill is passed. A
direct threat would be posed to seventy-eight percent of Planned
Parenthood patients who earn incomes of 150 percent of the federal
poverty level or less.
It is time to focus on this country's real concerns and stop trying
to deprive women of essential health services. I strongly oppose this
bill and any other efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond.
Madam Speaker, they sure want that government shutdown. I do want to
remind them that we have over 13,000 community health centers in the
country. Planned Parenthood has cut their cancer screening and
prevention services in half in the past 7 years, and they do not
perform mammograms, but they do over 300,000 abortions.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr.
Roe).
Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R.
3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
As an OB/GYN physician who has delivered close to 5,000 babies, I was
sickened and disturbed by the release of several videos showing Planned
Parenthood executives casually discussing the dismemberment of babies
to sell body parts.
Madam Speaker, this bill isn't about whether you are pro-life or pro-
choice, though I am proud to say that I will always be a defender of
the right to life. This is about the gruesome practices of an
organization that receives over $500 million a year from the Federal
Government. As legislators, we carry the responsibility and the
privilege to protect those who do not have a voice and to ensure that
tax dollars are supporting organizations that truly provide health care
for women.
I have seen the videos, and I can tell you, that is not health care.
I have spent my entire life caring for patients, and it is important to
note that there are alternatives for women to receive care besides
Planned Parenthood. I strongly support withholding tax dollars from
Planned Parenthood until congressional investigators have had a chance
to review the matter. I am proud to encourage my colleagues to support
this important bill.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, may I please inquire how much
time is left on each side.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida has 8\1/2\
minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Tennessee has 11\1/4\ minutes
remaining.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Again, the videos keep being referenced here on the floor. I want
Members to understand, I want the American public to understand that
the first four short videos released on YouTube have 40 separate
splices and edits that remove crucial context. They remove exculpatory
statements like, ``Nobody should be selling tissue; that is not the
goal here,'' and, ``This is not a service they should be making money
from. It is something they should be able to offer to their patients in
a way that doesn't impact them,'' or, ``We are not looking to make
money from this. Our goal is to keep access available.'' In one of the
videos there are at least 16 substantial unexplained edits, including
the removal of nine instances where Planned Parenthood staff said there
is no profit related to tissue donation.
Doesn't that seem misleading and fundamentally dishonest to remove
statements like that, and then base a smear campaign and bring it to
the floor of the United States Congress for policymaking? I think so.
That is why these videos have been denounced across the country by
independent editorial writers. They have called them distorted and
unfair, dishonest, grossly misleading, and politically irresponsible
and swift boating.
Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr.
Payne), my friend
Mr. PAYNE. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R.
3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act.
There is nothing thoughtful about this legislation. This is a
shameful and shocking sham. This has always been about Republicans
wanting to restrict the right of women to make their own healthcare
decisions.
Let me say, you know, these doctored videos on YouTube, my children
watch YouTube, and you can see whatever you want on YouTube. You can
see a man punt a basketball through a basket from 500 feet. You can see
whatever you want. So I am not surprised that these doctored videos are
on YouTube.
Mammograms are done in imaging centers, so no health center does an
actual mammogram. So let's stop trying to mislead the American people
with this sham.
If you like YouTube so much, and that is where you are going to get
your information, I have another video you can watch right now on
YouTube. It is called, ``Dumb and Dumber.''
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Michigan (Mr. Walberg).
Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, it has been said that none are so blind
as those who will not see, and so I rise today on behalf of the unborn
babies who can't stand up for themselves.
Many of my colleagues have already described the horrifying videos
that shock the conscience and have sparked several congressional
investigations.
No matter what party you belong to, we should all agree that taxpayer
dollars should not be used for harvesting baby parts for profit. The
debate today is about more than these barbaric practices. It is about
the very character of our Nation. Will we turn a blind eye to this
callous disregard for human life? Is this the country we want to be?
Two weeks ago today, my newest granddaughter, Naomi Gail, was born
after an emergency C-section from a doctor who understood the need for
life for both the mother and the child. Holding her in my arms was a
vivid reminder that all life is sacred, and every child deserves
dignity, respect, and a chance for a full life.
America was founded on the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. Madam Speaker, it all begins with life.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee).
Ms. LEE. Madam Speaker, I want to thank Representative Castor for her
tremendous leadership.
I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 3134, which is nothing more than
yet another ideological attack on women's health care. It would defund
Planned Parenthood for a year, leaving millions of women across the
country without access to critical healthcare services.
Planned Parenthood centers often serve as a primary care health
facility for women seeking birth control, cancer and STI screenings,
and other critical preventive care. In 2013 alone, Planned Parenthood
provided healthcare services to more than 800,000 Californians and
provided more than 93,000 Pap tests and 97,000 breast exams.
Denying access to the healthcare services such as Planned Parenthood
provides will harm those who most need these services, including low-
income women and women of color. This

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bill is shameful. It is disrespectful. It is wrong. Politicians
shouldn't be interfering, anyway, in a woman's personal healthcare
decisions.
It is past time Republicans stop their war on women and stop these
ideological attacks and stop using women's health care to divert
attention from a looming government shutdown because Republicans refuse
to pass a budget.
Vote ``no'' on this deceptive and dishonest bill.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 20 seconds to respond
to something.
Our colleagues across the aisle have a colleague from New Jersey who
previously spoke. I want to reference a press release that was sent out
August 15 from his office on community health centers:

Community health centers attend to hard-to-reach
populations and are a vital resource that have a significant
impact in improving health in New Jersey.

Talking about reaching hard-to-serve populations, this is what we are
doing. Let's put the money where it meets the most needs.
I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy), who
is the author of H.R. 3495, the Women's Public Health and Safety Act,
and commend him for his commitment in those efforts.
Mr. DUFFY. ``It is a boy,'' or, ``it is a girl''; any parent knows
that phrase. It is one of the most memorable moments that they will
ever have in their lives.
Recently, we heard that same phrase, but it was said by an abortion
provider at Planned Parenthood, and it was as that provider--we will
use that term loosely--was siphoning through the body parts of a little
baby, taking hearts and lungs for sale, but noticed it is a boy.
What a perversion. What a perversion of who we are as a people. I
think it calls into question this debate. This is not a debate about
women's health. We are providing the same amount of money for women's
health to great clinics that provide great care. It is about Planned
Parenthood.
Why is it about Planned Parenthood? If you watch this debate, you
have to ask, how could anybody defend the practices at Planned
Parenthood, harvesting body parts? How could anyone defend that? It is
an easy answer. Look in political season. Millions of dollars--millions
of dollars--are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the
House of Representatives and to the Senate. This isn't about babies.
This is about money.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the
gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. DelBene).
Ms. DelBENE. Madam Speaker, this feels like deja vu. Once again, the
House is ignoring the challenges facing our Nation in order to attack
women's health. Already this year, the House has voted to restrict
reproductive health care in private insurance, enact a sweeping 20-week
abortion ban, and allow employers to discriminate against their workers
for using birth control.
Now, with just 5 legislative days before a shutdown, we are wasting
our time on a bill the President has said he will veto. It is past time
for Congress to stop focusing on ideology and start focusing on the
facts. The fact is defunding Planned Parenthood would have a
devastating effect on women's access to health care. That care includes
cancer screenings, immunizations, and birth control.
As my colleagues are well aware, current law already prevents Federal
funding for abortion services. It is shameful that the House is
allowing the reckless actions of a few extremists to jeopardize the
critical safety net provided by Planned Parenthood. We can't let that
happen.
I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Ohio (Mr. Gibbs).
Mr. GIBBS. Madam Speaker, we have seen in the videos released this
summer the horrific practices of harvesting the body parts of aborted
children for profit. We have also known that Planned Parenthood
provides abortion procedures, and the pro-life movement has for years
worked very hard to ensure that no taxpayer dollars will be used to
fund the procedure of abortion.
Planned Parenthood is not about women's health care. We know this
because not one clinic performs mammograms. The despicable actions that
were uncovered in these videos show the true nature of Planned
Parenthood. It shows their complete disregard for life. It shows how
careless they are with the responsibility to treat our most vulnerable
and innocent with respect.
We cannot give taxpayer dollars to an organization that profits from
the sale of organs from aborted children. Planned Parenthood officials
have been caught haggling over the price of body parts from aborted
children, and they have been recorded on camera fearing the
consequences if their actions were revealed to the world. We have two
House committee investigations. We have an obligation to suspend
Federal funding to Planned Parenthood while the investigations are
being conducted.
Now is the time for all Americans to reflect on the fragile nature of
life and how we treat the unborn. I want to thank Congresswoman Black
for leading the efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. I urge my
colleagues to support this bill.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, how much time is remaining?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida has 4\1/2\
minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Tennessee has 8 minutes
remaining.

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Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Kelly).
Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. I stand before you today not as a
Republican and not as a Member of this House, but as a fellow human
being, and I wonder: How did we get to this point? How do we somehow
compromise in our mind what it is that we are talking about today?
I want you to disconnect from any organization or agency and
concentrate on the act of what is taking place.
This is not a blob of tissue. This is one of America's sons or
daughters waiting to be born. They are taken from the safety of their
mother's womb and they are taken out very carefully so they can harvest
certain body parts: hearts, lungs, heads.
You can sit here and try to make it something about an agency and
turn a blind eye to the act that is taking place in a country that will
go to any length to protect life, in a people that believes in the
sanctity of life from its very conception to its natural death.
And somehow harvesting the parts from these little baby boys and
girls has become a political issue?
This is an issue human being to human being. This is an issue of
conscience and conviction. Please, do not make it a political battle.
This is about our sons and daughters. This is about a horrific act
that is repulsive and repugnant and has no place in America. America's
taxpayers refuse to pay for that type of act. Wake up.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis).
Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. I thank the many colleagues who stood
here and stand with me now to rise in support of ensuring that hard-
earned taxpayer dollars do not go to private entities that are
trafficking in fetal baby parts.
We have to put a stop to this heinous practice. We have to ensure
that this problem is investigated. We have to ensure that the Federal
Government is not condoning these actions.
I believe that we need to ensure that Planned Parenthood understands
that the money that they have access to from the Federal Treasury is
not mandatory money that is given to that agency.
We need to ensure that women's health is a priority, but let's put
the tax dollars into the agencies and the community health centers that
are providing access to women's health care every day throughout this
great Nation. We can do that.
Let's stand together. Let's ban this heinous practice. Let's make
sure we move forward.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from
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Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to the
Defund Planned Parenthood Act. I want to say this as respectfully as
possible, but this bill is dumb, it is foolish, and it is mean-
spirited, with only one purpose, and that is to punish one of our
country's premier health organizations because it provides women access
to an array of services that we need to lead healthy lives. The bill is
based upon lies and exaggerations.
Now, if you want to have a truthful debate, then let's talk about the
400,000 Pap smears, the 500,000 breast exams, and the 4.5 million STD
and HIV tests that Planned Parenthood does each year. Now, that is
saving lives. That is the truth.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to gentleman from
North Carolina (Mr. Pittenger).
Mr. PITTENGER. Madam Speaker, many years ago, I was in London with my
family at the British Museum and watched a little movie about the
development and growth of a baby inside a mother's womb. The video was
all about life, tracking the baby's development week by week.
Recently, we have all watched videos where Planned Parenthood
executives candidly talked about death. How can anyone defend the sale
of a little baby's body parts? Why should Federal taxpayers support
organizations that rob little ones of their right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness?
Planned Parenthood has betrayed the rights and life of America's most
defenseless. Today I am asking that you join me in supporting the
Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which effectively halts Federal
funding of Planned Parenthood for 1 year or until they can certify that
their affiliates and clinics are not and will not perform abortions.
I thank Congresswoman Diane Black for her leadership on this issue.
The character of our Nation is at stake. We must restore the value and
sanctity of every life and fight back against those unfathomable acts.
Life is precious. Let's cherish each and every one.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I reserve the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Rothfus).
Mr. ROTHFUS. Madam Speaker, what we have learned about Planned
Parenthood through these videos is appalling, barbaric, and
indefensible. Here are some of the quotes:

We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver . . . so
I'm not gonna crush that part.
Using a ``less crunchy'' technique to get more whole
specimens.
We're going to procure brain . . . so what you do is you go
through the face . . .

And when discussing the sale of body parts, a Planned Parenthood
official asks:

Well, why don't you start by telling me what you're used to
paying?

Madam Speaker, our Nation is so much better than this. The cold
indifference shown in these videos is the inevitable result for an
organization that does hundreds of thousands of abortions every year.
Federally funded clinics that serve women's health and do not perform
abortions outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics by between two to one.
Let's send the funds to those clinics.
I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.
Ms. CASTRO of Florida. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Farr).
Mr. FARR. I don't think anybody on your side has read the bill. It
doesn't do anything that you have talked about.
It doesn't stop abortions. It doesn't stop any of those other issues
that are already illegal. It does one thing: It shuts down Planned
Parenthood clinics.
I represent the largest affiliate of Planned Parenthood in the United
States. And guess what. Twenty-two percent of the patients are men. So
you are going to deny access not only to women, but to men.
You say: ``Oh, we will shift the money somewhere else.'' There is
nowhere else. These are the only clinics around in many of the
communities.
So what you are doing is taking this angry white man's caucus on the
Republican side that have been for years trying to use this as a
political issue, using a bill that says you are going to do all these
things. It only does one thing: it penalizes Planned Parenthood.
Penalizing Planned Parenthood penalizes us all. It is about access to
health care, particularly, access to health care for women.
Stop beating up on women. Stop trying to make this a political issue.
The reason we haven't been able to legislate against abortion is
because you can't find a law that can enforce it.
This is really a moral issue and a medical issue that ought to be
discussed with women and their doctors. Congress Members ought to stay
out of this.
We haven't been successful in solving these problems. This only hurts
people, particularly in rural areas, because the majority of Planned
Parenthood clinics are in rural areas.
Stop being so mean. Solve problems, not create them.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address their
remarks to the Chair and not to other Members.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds.
I would encourage all Members to read the bill. It is very short. It
is about three pages. What it will do is freeze this funding for a year
so we can do the investigation, and it sends it to some of the 13,000
community health centers that are in the country.
We have even got a press release from one of their colleagues
extolling the values of these community health centers.
I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Allen).
Mr. ALLEN. I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.
The appalling videos that have been released revealing Planned
Parenthood's horrific activities should spur deep concern in every
American.
In a recent hearing with Secretary Burwell, I asked her whether the
Department of Health and Human Services would probe into these
allegations, but she refused to commit to an investigation.
We have a moral responsibility to act to investigate this
organization's actions and hold them accountable.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, may I inquire how much time is
remaining?
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Florida has 2\1/2\
minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from Tennessee has 3\3/4\ minutes
remaining.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr.
Jody B. Hice).
Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, the recent allegations
and videos that have come forth have literally shocked the world by
showcasing the morally bankrupt practices of Planned Parenthood.
I am honored to stand with my colleagues to try to prevent tax
dollars from going to this organization that has now stooped to the
practice of trafficking innocent baby parts, they say, for the purpose
of advancing medical research, but we all know that there is no excuse
that can possibly be given to provide for the moral bankruptcy of
Planned Parenthood.
It is time to defund this while the investigation occurs. The blood
and body parts of children should be looked at as a sacred entity
rather than an industry.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Maine
(Ms. Pingree).
Ms. PINGREE. I thank my friend for yielding and for her excellent
remarks on the floor this morning.
Madam Speaker, defunding Planned Parenthood would have a real,
profound, negative impact on the 10,000 people in Maine who get health
care from Planned Parenthood every year, many of whom have no other
access to care.
Planned Parenthood provides basic health care like cancer screenings,
vaccinations, wellness exams, and STD testing, basic care that will
mean the difference between health and sickness, prosperity and
poverty, or even life and death for women in my State.
Let's be clear. Who is really behind the attempts to defund Planned
Parenthood? Radical antiabortion groups who want to shut down Planned
Parenthood and deny women access to safe and legal abortions. These are
groups who want to deny women the right to make a private, personal
medical decision.
In the process, they want to take away the access to birth control,
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health care. They have orchestrated a false, misleading smear campaign
to try and accomplish their goal, a campaign we have heard a lot today
about here on the floor of the House of Representatives.
I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' and stand up for women's rights
to make their own decisions about health care and protect their access
to basic medical services.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman
from Texas (Mr. Farenthold).
Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, during the recent Presidential debates
Carly Fiorina called and dared President Obama and Hillary Clinton to
watch these appalling videos.
I realize we only have a few minutes left, but I want to dare Members
on the other side to watch these videos, too. There are computers in
the cloakroom where they can watch them.
If they want to send one taxpayer dime to Planned Parenthood after
watching it, shame on them. There are much better places to send it,
like these community health centers created under President Obama's
bill. There are lots of places women can go for health care, not just
Planned Parenthood.
Go watch the videos.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. I am pleased to yield 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).
(Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr. BLUMENAUER. It is bizarre to watch the manufactured controversy
surrounding ambush-type, heavily edited filming used to discredit
Planned Parenthood.
These attacks do not reflect my experience and knowledge of the
amazing, dedicated, civic-minded men and women--pillars of our
community--who have built, supported, and led Planned Parenthood in my
community.
There is no question that, because of their efforts, tens of
thousands of abortions never occurred. Because of their efforts, 70,000
women in Oregon last year received services.
They are people who know their communities, Planned Parenthood
leadership understands that this heated rhetoric, outrageous claims,
and attack against service to low-income women is not just false, it is
wrong.
It is bizarre to watch the manufactured controversy surrounding
ambush-type, heavily-edited journalism used to discredit Planned
Parenthood.
It's not just the blatantly manipulative and misleading tactics that
are being used, which should be enough for most people to reject the
allegations on their face. These attacks do not reflect my experience
and knowledge of the amazing, dedicated, civic-minded men and women who
have built, supported, and led Planned Parenthood in my community.
For decades, I have admired these pillars of community, leaders in
education, religion, business, and other civic affairs that provided
the vision, the volunteer effort, and personal contributions to women's
health and reproductive freedom. There is no question that because of
their efforts, tens of thousands of abortions never occurred in our
community and those that did occur, did not result in harm to women.
Because of their efforts, Oregon's 11 Planned Parenthood centers
provided care to over 70,000 women in 2013, including over 25,000
breast and cervical cancer screenings. Nationally, Planned Parenthood
services over 2.5 million women annually. Planned Parenthood centers
serve a greater share of safety-net clients than any other type of
safety-net providers. Nearly 80 percent of women using Planned
Parenthood have incomes at or below 150 percent of poverty--these
clinics offer affordable health care options for women who may have no
alternate source of care.
The fact that we are engaged in a concerted assault against the
provision of essential services to women, especially women of color and
low-income status is appalling. If people would take the time, as I
have, to visit these facilities, meet the employees, and most
importantly, know these community leaders that have made it possible to
protect women's health, to prevent countless abortions, and to promote
wellbeing and education, they would see the lies behind this heated
rhetoric and misguided attacks.

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Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. Wenstrup).
Mr. WENSTRUP. Madam Speaker, I serve on the board of health in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and I am very familiar with FQHCs. I might say that
FQHCs provide services, expansive services, not only to women, but men
and children as well.
My wife and I are currently in the process of adoption, and it
sickens me to see these parts of young children sitting there, knowing
that we could take them, love them, and nurture them into a wonderful
life. I don't know how people look at themselves in the mirror and
think that this is okay.
Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of
my time.
The Republican Congress has fundamentally failed to fulfill its basic
responsibility to work out an appropriations plan that will keep this
government open. This bill, to inflame the passion that is based on
false videos, distorted clips that was part of a coordinated smear
campaign all across the country, is being used as the foundation to
close the government.
I hope it doesn't happen, but it appears that the dysfunction in the
Republican Congress is going to lead us down that path, at the expense
of women's health care, their basic fundamental services all across
this country.
Last spring, we asked the Republicans in Congress to sit down and
hammer out an appropriations plan. They refused. They adjourned at the
end of July. Nothing happened in August. Nothing has happened here in
September, except for these inflammatory bills based upon false YouTube
videos.
This Republican Congress' continuing dysfunction and inability to
govern are having real effects on hard-working Americans. This ``Deny
Women Health Care Act'' is a cynical attack on the ability of women to
receive the health services they need.
I urge a ``no'' vote, and I urge my Republican colleagues to keep the
government open for hard-working Americans.
Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman
from Texas (Mr. Poe).
Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, where have we gone? Where is the
moral compass of the United States? Do we want to continue the issue of
taking body parts of babies and selling them on the open market and
protecting that enterprise? Or do we want to back up and say, if that
is occurring, we are not funding it?
All this legislation does is say: Wait a minute, if that is occurring
in America, we are not going to tolerate it. Until we find out, no more
money, and it should go to other agencies that don't harvest the body
parts of babies.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
I am going to close and draw to an end this debate. I do want to
remind all my colleagues that we are not discussing government
shutdown. What we are talking about is a bill that would withhold funds
from Planned Parenthood for a period of a year, while we have an
investigation.
Now, I know they have called this a smear campaign. We are
investigating the operations of Planned Parenthood.
Why are we doing this? Planned Parenthood is big abortion in this
country--300,000 abortions a year, as opposed to 1,800 adoption
services; 98.5 percent of all women who go there for a prenatal
service, it is an abortion. Think about that, 98.5 percent.
There is reason to review how they use taxpayer funding, and we are
justified in withholding taxpayer funds until we finish that.
Now, our colleagues have chosen to say that we are radical, dumb,
shameful, disrespectful, foolish, extremists, deniers, deprivers, mean-
spirited, and beating up on women. Think about that. All because we
stand for life, for liberty. We stand for life rights, a first right,
and these are the names that you attach to people who defend those
rights.
Saturday, I went to a baby shower. An excited grandmother said, Meet
my granddaughter. It was an ultrasound, a 3-D ultrasound. Her name is
Jessica. That is a baby with a life, and Planned Parenthood is aborting
300,000 of those lives each year.
It is time for taxpayer money to be withheld. I support the bill.
Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mrs. WAGNER. Madam Speaker, today I speak in support of H.R. 3134,
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Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, to terminate taxpayer support of this
deplorable organization.
I'd like to thank my good friend, Congresswoman Diane Black for her
leadership on this issue and her unwavering support for the lives of
the unborn.
This summer, we have learned of the shocking nature of Planned
Parenthood's practice of selling babies' hearts, lungs, livers, brains
and other organs, often for a profit, to the highest bidder.
We were disturbed by what we learned about these practices, but
perhaps even more so by the cold indifference in which countless
employees dehumanized unborn children, effectively turning them into
line item revenue sources, rather than human life in its most precious
form.
After discovering the grotesque nature of these practices, the U.S.
House of Representatives responded to these abhorrent activities by
launching investigative hearings, the first of which began in the House
Judiciary Committee last week.
Yet the very same week we began investigating the extent of the
wrongdoing, the Executive Branch, through the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, awarded Planned Parenthood of Missouri, Iowa and
Montana with over $1 million in taxpayer support.
The only response to this unthinkable action is for the U.S. House of
Representatives, the legislative body with constitutional authority
over federal funds, to pass legislation expressly prohibiting the
federal government from supporting Planned Parenthood.
Madam Speaker, it is not enough for the U.S. House of Representatives
to deny funds from a single continuing resolution or omnibus spending
package.
Instead we must do so permanently and Congresswoman Black's
legislation gives Congress an opportunity to continue our
investigations into Planned Parenthood and work toward the day when we
are no longer funding this abhorrent organization.
In the short term, there is much work to be done.
The U.S. House of Representatives is responsible for acting on behalf
of the American people and investigating the extent to which Planned
Parenthood's has profited from this activity.
Furthermore we must make sure that Planned Parenthood has not been
engaging in illegal partial birth abortions.
We must determine whether or not Planned Parenthood has been breaking
the law by altering abortion procedures to preserve certain organs for
sale.
We must protect women and unborn children from these dangerous
procedures that are designed to increase revenue for this group and
profit from the destruction innocent life.
And perhaps most importantly, we must provide funding for other
organizations that provide women's health care support and services--
without also offering abortions.
And we must not continue taxpayer funding for groups like Planned
Parenthood that believe they are above the laws of the United States.
We have a duty, as elected Representatives to stand up for the most
vulnerable among us, to lend a voice to the voiceless, and fight back
against injustice.
And so I lend my full support to H.R. 3134, so that we may defund
Planned Parenthood and provide vulnerable women with better options for
their health care needs.
Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today in
strong opposition to H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act.
This bill is partisan politics at its worst. The attacks on Planned
Parenthood are nothing more than political witch-hunts led by anti-
abortion extremists. Their efforts to mislead the public and tarnish
the reputation of Planned Parenthood are downright shameful.
Here are the facts: millions of American families, particularly in
underserved areas, rely on Planned Parenthood for family planning
services and basic women's healthcare. Seventy-eight percent of Planned
Parenthood patients live with incomes at 150 percent of the federal
poverty level or less, and almost half a million of their patients are
Latinos. Were it not for Planned Parenthood, these families, including
over 25 thousand in my district, would have nowhere to turn for basic
health care needs.
Defunding Planned Parenthood has implications for the 2.7 million
Americans across the country who count on Planned Parenthood for STD
and STI testing, cancer screenings, contraceptive care, and other
health services. These basic and critical healthcare services which
account for 97% of those provided at Planned Parenthood, are what is
really being defunded here.
It's been 42 years since the United States Supreme Court ruled that a
woman has the constitutional right to choose what is best for her
health and her body. Since then, anti-abortion extremists have been
working tirelessly to chip away at this constitutional protection. This
time, Madam Speaker, the ramifications of their efforts extend far
beyond abortion. They threaten the health and well-being of millions of
hard-working American families in my district and across the country.
The majority always argues for small government. I guess this time
they want a government small enough to fit inside the exam room with a
woman and her doctor.
Madam Speaker, I'd like to submit a letter signed by 13 Latino
advocacy groups in opposition to defunding Planned Parenthood.

August 3, 2015.
U.S. Senate,
Washington, DC.
House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Members of Congress: As organizations committed to the
civil and human rights, health equity, and well-being of
Latino/as, our families, and our communities, we the thirteen
undersigned organizations urge you to oppose all efforts to
defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) or
other healthcare providers that Latinos/as rely on for high
quality care.
The recent manipulated and misleading attacks on PPFA are
yet another political attempt to target providers of
reproductive health services. The real agenda behind these
attacks is to block access to basic health services,
particularly for low-income communities, women of color, and
young people. These tactics also create an atmosphere of fear
and shame intended to intimidate women who seek abortion and
those who provide the much needed care.
Such attacks on PPFA, a critical provider of vital health
services to low-income women and women of color, threatens to
unravel the reproductive health safety net that our Latino/a
community relies on. We have already seen such efforts as in
Texas when the state legislature authorized the ``affiliate
rule'' that barred all Planned Parenthood health centers from
receiving state funds. In 2012, the first full year following
the devastating cuts to family planning funding and
implementation of the ``affiliate rule,'' Texas met only 13
percent of the need for publicly funded contraception--less
than half of national totals for the same year.
Furthermore, defunding PPFA would have a devastating impact
on the Latino/a community which experiences higher rates of
reproductive cancers, unintended pregnancy, and sexually
transmitted infections than most other groups of people in
the U.S. In fact, according to the latest statistics from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinas have the
highest cervical cancer incidence rates. Latinos/as,
including LGBTQ Latinos/as, immigrant women, and women of
color experience system barriers such as cost, lack of
available clinics, insufficient culturally and linguistically
competent health systems, and discriminatory immigration
policies that make it difficult for individuals and
communities to access routine healthcare. For decades,
Latinos/as have been the most uninsured racial and ethnic
group.
That is why our communities rely on Planned Parenthood for
quality healthcare. In 2013, PPFA's clinics served 575,000
Latinos/as, which was 22 percent of their overall patients.
We will not tolerate any attempts to cut Latinos/as off from
this care.
We strongly urge you to oppose all proposals to defund PPFA
and stand with the undersigned organizations to protect the
right to health care for Latinos/as and other persons of
color. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact Ann Marie Benitez, Senior Director of Government
Relations, at National Latina Institute for Reproductive
Health.
Signed,
Casa de Esperanza, Farmworker Justice, Hispanic
Federation, Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, League of United
Latin American Citizens, Mexican American Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, National Alliance of Latin
American and Caribbean Communities, National Hispanic
Media Coalition, National Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health, Presente, U.S.-Mexico Foundation,
VotoLatino.

Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this brazen
assault on women's health, which would harm lower income women around
this nation.
The legislation we are debating today would mean that women with
limited health options will find it harder to secure lifesaving
services--like breast exams and pap tests. In New York alone, cutting
Planned Parenthood funding would mean that nearly 50,000 fewer breast
exams would occur. 37,000 women would no longer receive pap tests.
Millions of women nationwide would no longer have access to STI
screenings and treatments, to say nothing of additional unplanned
pregnancies.
These are just some of the critical treatments and procedures Planned
Parenthood provides--some of which save women's lives. If you want to
proclaim yourself ``pro-life'' then you should care about women's
lives--not focus on depriving them of health care services and
contraception.
Today, we have just a few legislative days left before another
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we are debating is going nowhere. It will not pass the Senate. If it
did, the President would veto it.
Yet, House Republicans remain obsessed with attacking Planned
Parenthood and reducing women's healthcare options--to the point where
they are ready to engender another government shutdown.
We need to reject this legislation so we get back to the serious
business of governing. Support women's health care, vote no on the
bill.
Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I stand in strong
opposition to H.R. 3134, Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.
This debate and vote are another attempt to deny women basic health
care, including reproductive health services. 2.7 million patients--
both men and women--all across America depend on Planned Parenthood for
critical medical services every year. In my district, if you go to a
Planned Parenthood clinic at the end of the day, women, many of modest
means, will be lined up through the waiting room and, often, down the
street, waiting to be seen.
While supporters of this bill claim women will have other comparable
options, the experts tell us that is simply not the case. The non-
partisan Congressional Budget Office found that if this bill is passed,
as many as 630,000 Planned Parenthood patients could lose access to
birth control, STD screening, and other reproductive health services.
And researchers at the Guttmacher Institute estimate that in 103 of
America's 491 counties, Planned Parenthood is the only safety-net
family planning clinic.
I am outraged by this attempt to use a heavily edited and thoroughly
discredited video to vilify an organization that plays a vital role in
communities across the nation. Planned Parenthood should be celebrated,
not demonized, and I hope my colleagues reject this dangerous and
disingenuous piece of legislation.
Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, today, I come to the House floor to stand
up for women's health.
Republicans are using a heavily edited, agenda-driven series of
videos that falsely portray Planned Parenthood's participation in
tissue donation programs that support lifesaving scientific research.
These outrageous and false claims about Planned Parenthood have been
discredited. Edited and distorted video should not undermine the
incredible work that Planned Parenthood does across this country in
providing critical health care to millions of women.
This bill to defund Planned Parenthood would not defund abortion.
Only three percent of all health services provided by Planned
Parenthood are abortion services, and these services already cannot be
paid for with federal funding. What this bill would defund is basic
health services for millions of women. Planned Parenthood provides
family planning counseling and contraception to 2.1 million patients,
400,000 lifesaving screenings for cervical cancer, nearly 500,000
breast exams, and nearly 4.5 million tests and treatments for sexually
transmitted infections, including HIV.
Despite news this week that the number of uninsured Americans
decreased by 8.8 million last year thanks to the Affordable Care Act,
33 million Americans still have no health insurance. Perhaps hardest
hit by this defunding effort will be the women who live in one of the
20 states that have declined the Medicaid expansion provided by the
Affordable Care Act and who rely on Planned Parenthood for lifesaving
health care.
Defunding Planned Parenthood would also be devastating for low-income
communities, women of color, and young people. It would unravel our
nation's reproductive health safety net. Planned Parenthood health
centers comprise 10% of all publicly funded family planning centers,
and serve 36% of all clients who obtain care from the nation's network
of family planning providers. The view of some Republicans that federal
funding could simply be redistributed to other health care centers and
providers ignores where Planned Parenthood health centers are located.
They are not typically on Main Street, but rather in areas and
neighborhoods where they are most needed. For example, a new Planned
Parenthood center currently under construction here in D.C. is located
in a underserved area in Ward 5 whose population greatly needs access
to the health services that Planned Parenthood provides.
Unfortunately, we in the District of Columbia know all too well this
type of assault on women's reproductive health and Planned Parenthood.
Whenever Republicans have controlled the House, they have imposed a
devastating rider on the District that prevents us from spending our
locally raised taxes on abortion services for low-income women,
singling us out as the only jurisdiction in the country that cannot
spend its local tax dollars for such purposes. We were successful in
getting that rider removed from the Senate's fiscal year 2016 D.C.
Appropriations bill, and we will continue to fight to have the rider
removed from any final spending bill.
I urge my colleagues to vote no on this hyper-partisan bill, which
would devastate women's access to health services, most drastically in
low-income and minority communities.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Speaker, I rise to express several serious
concerns with the flawed process that led to a flawed product, H.R.
3134, the ``Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015.''
Ten shocking videos released over the last few months document what
many already knew was happening at Planned Parenthood facilities around
our nation--the selling and trafficking of fetal organs for a profit.
For the vast majority of Americans who view human life as sacred, these
videos halve caused righteous anger and disgust that the taxpayer-
subsidized ``non-profit organization'' is not only extinguishing human
life but also making money off of human parts--at the taxpayers'
expense.
This is the moment for the pro-life movement to hold this evil
organization accountable by completely and unequivocally defunding
Planned Parenthood.
Rather than fighting to protect life and actually defunding Planned
Parenthood, we are voting today on a weak bill, without teeth, that
does not defund Planned Parenthood.
H.R. 3134 only places a one-year moratorium on federal funding of
Planned Parenthood. Furthermore, it includes exceptions to continue to
allow taxpayer dollars to go to Planned Parenthood and its abortion
factories.
With all we know about what goes on at Planned Parenthood's abortion
factories, why are we voting on a bill to ``defund'' Planned Parenthood
for one year?
What's worse, H.R. 3134 does not defund Planned Parenthood. The
exceptions included in this bill allow taxpayer dollars to be used to
fund abortions performed at Planned Parenthood. In effect, this bill is
a proactive vote by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives to
affirmatively fund abortions at Planned Parentlgd facilities. The very
bill leadership has promoted as the solution to this grisly problem--
the taxpayer funded mutilation of fully formed children--actually
rubber stamps the existing situation.
Furthermore, the certification process in this bill is ripe for fraud
and abuse. All Planned Parenthood needs to do is certify it is already
following federal law and the Hyde Amendment to continue to receive
funding. Who ensures this certification? Once Planned Parenthood
receives federal funding and is found to violate this Act, what is the
process for the executive branch to seek repayment of this money? H.R.
3134 does not go far enough to address concerns for fraud and abuse.
Because of my serious concerns with the substance of H.R. 3134, I
offered an amendment to the Rules Committee on Wednesday, September 16,
2015. My amendment states:
``No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law may be made
available for any purpose to--(1) Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, Inc.; (2) any affiliate or clinic of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc.; or (3) any successor of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, Inc. or any such affiliate or clinic.''
My amendment is simple: no federal funds to Planned Parenthood.
Period. No one-year moratorium. No exceptions. That should be the goal
of this debate and any legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.
Unfortunately, the Rules Committee did not approve my amendment for
debate on the floor or adopt it as part of the underlying bill. If my
amendment was considered on the floor, I am confident that my
colleagues would have overwhelming support and adopted my amendment
into the underlying bill.
The funding fight starts now--this is our marker--H.R. 3134 is not a
sufficient vote to defund Planned Parenthood. I expect much stronger
language than this in the CR coming up in the next few weeks. Innocent,
unborn babies deserve more than just a show vote.
For these reasons, I will cast a present vote.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 421, the previous question is ordered on
the bill, as amended.
The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was
read the third time.

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Motion to Recommit

Ms. ESTY. Madam Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
Ms. ESTY. I am, in its current form.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I reserve a point of order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
The Clerk will report the motion to recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:

Ms. Esty moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 3134, to the
Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report
the same back to the House forthwith with the following
amendment:
At the end of the bill, add the following:

SEC. 6. NO IMPACT ON FUNDING FOR ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING
WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES.

Notwithstanding section 3, nothing in this Act shall impact
the amount of funding available for any organization that
provides women's health services, such as preventive care and
cancer screenings, in appropriations legislation for fiscal
year 2016, including any continuing resolution.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from
Connecticut is recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
Ms. ESTY. Madam Speaker, this is the final amendment to the bill
which will not stop the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted,
this bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended.
I rise today as a mother, as a woman, and as a Representative to
offer this straightforward amendment to protect women's access to vital
health care.
Contrary to what many Americans have been led to believe, the bill
before us today is not about abortion. This bill would, however,
restrict women's access to health care all across the country by
entirely eliminating all Federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Let's be very clear. No Federal tax dollars go towards abortions, and
none have since 1976. That is not what this bill is about.
We all know a woman who has been diagnosed with cancer--cervical
cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer. It may be your mother, your
neighbor, or your wife who sought preventive care or cancer screening
from a doctor of her choice.
Yes, we all know a woman who has received quality medical care at
Planned Parenthood. In fact, one in five American women have sought
medical care from Planned Parenthood. It may be your daughter. It may
be your boss. It may be your colleague.
My amendment will ensure that any qualified organization that
provides women's health services can receive funding. It is simple, and
it is fair.
We need more access to quality health care, not less. We need to stop
trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth
control, and well-woman exams. We need to stop fighting 40-year-old
battles on women's rights.
Defunding Planned Parenthood would have a devastating impact on
women, especially low-income women, women in rural communities, and
women of color.
It is not only women who receive health care at Planned Parenthood.
Men receive health care at Planned Parenthood, too.
Here are some facts about Planned Parenthood's critical role in
providing health services to Americans every year.
Planned Parenthood provides family planning counseling and
contraceptive care to 2.1 million Americans, more than 1.1 million
pregnancy tests, nearly 400,000 Pap smear tests, and nearly 500,000
lifesaving breast exams.
Let's remember that, in many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only
source of family planning services. That is why, in 1976, as a college
freshman, I volunteered for Planned Parenthood because I had seen the
impact on young women in my rural high school who had no access to
family planning services. Too many got pregnant, dropped out of school,
and never pursued their dreams.
Today, with only 5 legislative days left, we should be focusing on
avoiding a reckless and unnecessary government shutdown.
Do you remember the last government shutdown, the one that cost us
$24 billion? No wonder some don't think America is great right now.
Dysfunction in this Congress is undermining the American people's faith
in democracy.
We, in Congress, have the power to act. We have the opportunity, and
we have the duty to set aside ideological battles and, instead, take up
the urgent business of the American people.
We should reauthorize the Export-Import Bank and pass a long-term,
well-funded highway trust fund bill, investing in America's
infrastructure, to ensure that America will continue to be great
throughout the 21st century.
I urge my colleagues to support my amendment to ensure that American
women have access to vital health care, no matter where they live and
no matter how much they earn.
Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of a point
of order.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The reservation of the point of order is
withdrawn.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I claim the time in opposition to the
motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Tennessee is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, we all know that Planned Parenthood
receives hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. For them to get that
money, while they are under investigation for profiting off the sale of
body parts, baby body parts, is just absolutely abhorrent.
What this bill does is to put a 1-year moratorium while we conduct
the investigation. Let's be real clear about that, a 1-year moratorium
while we do our due diligence. That is what you call smart business,
doing your due diligence, being a steward of the taxpayers' money.
Now, I have found it so interesting that they continue to say this
will cut access to women's health care. No, it will not.
Do you know Planned Parenthood sees less than 2 percent of all
American women in a given year? There is an amendment on this
legislation by Mrs. Ellmers, it redirects $235 million to the FQHCs,
the federally qualified health centers.
It will increase access because we have more of those centers in more
underserved areas, and they are required to provide services which
include diagnostic lab and radiological services.
Planned Parenthood has cut those screenings and cancer screenings and
those services in half over the last few years, while they have
increased their abortions to 300,000 a year.

{time} 1215

We are right in restricting these funds to Planned Parenthood while
we conduct this investigation. We are right to be a steward of the
taxpayer money.
Madam Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the motion to recommit and a
``yes'' vote on the passage of H.R. 3134.
I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. ESTY. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule
XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by
5-minute votes on passage of the bill, if ordered, and passage of H.R.
3504.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 183,
nays 245, not voting 6, as follows:

[Roll No. 504]

YEAS--183

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Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

NAYS--245

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOT VOTING--6

Cardenas
Fincher
Fortenberry
Smith (WA)
Thompson (CA)
Wagner

{time} 1239

Messrs. COFFMAN, MULVANEY, and ROGERS of Alabama changed their vote
from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Ms. McCOLLUM, Mr. McDERMOTT, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, and
Mr. VAN HOLLEN changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.

Recorded Vote

Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 241,
noes 187, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 5, as follows:

[Roll No. 505]

AYES--241

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Babin
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Blum
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donovan
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice, Jody B.
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peterson
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke

NOES--187

Adams
Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McCollum

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McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velazquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman
Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

King (IA)

NOT VOTING--5

Fincher
Fortenberry
Smith (WA)
Thompson (CA)
Wagner

Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.

{time} 1247

So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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