[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3117]
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

  (Ms. GRANGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, the Hyde amendment is an essential 
protection for the conscience rights of Americans and has saved over 2 
million innocent lives.
  The prohibition on the use of taxpayer funds for abortion has been 
enacted annually on a bipartisan basis despite our country's divisions 
on the question of abortion itself. Yet, despite President Biden's 
decades of support for the Hyde amendment, his budget request bows to 
the radical left and fails to include these longstanding protections.
  As ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, I am committed to 
protecting all existing pro-life protections and advancing the pro-life 
cause whenever possible.
  I will strongly oppose the elimination of the Hyde amendment from 
annual appropriations bills. But to strengthen the Hyde amendment, we 
must make it permanent law. That is why I support H.R. 18, the No 
Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.
  Mr. 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, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion 
Act, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bowman). Under guidelines consistently 
issued by successive Speakers, as recorded in section 956 of the House 
Rules and Manual, the Chair is constrained not to entertain the request 
unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee 
leaderships.

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