[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   REQUEST TO CONSIDER H.R. 18, NO TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ABORTION ACT

  (Mrs. FISCHBACH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. FISCHBACH. Madam Speaker, since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has 
protected American taxpayers from being complicit in the atrocity that 
is abortion on demand. And since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been 
reauthorized on a bipartisan basis, signed into law by both Republican 
and Democrat Presidents, and supported by most Americans, until now, as 
President Biden's proposed budget eliminates it altogether.
  Madam Speaker, we are treading in dangerous territory. Democrats have 
completely abandoned millions of pro-life Americans just like me, who 
vehemently oppose using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. And even 
worse, they have done it for no other reason than to appease their own 
radical base.
  President Biden said it best in 1994: ``Those of us who are opposed 
to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.'' And in 2006, he 
said: ``Won't support public funding of abortion.''
  Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committees on Energy 
and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary be discharged from 
further consideration of H.R. 18 and ask for its immediate 
consideration in the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, the request 
cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance.

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