[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I stand in solidarity with the majority 
of Americans that oppose taxpayer funding of abortions.
  Despite how clear Americans are on the issue, President Biden and the 
Democrats in Congress are attempting to force Americans to pay for 
abortions.
  President Biden's recent budget calls for removal of the Hyde 
amendment, the appropriations rider that prohibits Federal funding of 
abortion. Congressional Democrats have committed to removing the Hyde 
amendment and other longstanding pro-life provisions from this year's 
appropriations bill.
  We must not allow longstanding abortion funding prohibitions that are 
widely supported by the American people to be gotten rid of at the 
whims of pro-abortion radicals.
  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 (Ms. Stansbury). 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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