[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H230]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the Republican war on 
women and their continued efforts to lie about it in Congress. Their 
bill, H.R. 6918, is named the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women 
and Families Act, but it does not do that at all.
  It takes food money away from lower income families, and it gives it 
to the most extreme antiwomen and antifamily groups in America.
  Also, it would force women to give birth before they are ready to 
have families, and numerous studies show such births create more poor 
children who will need government assistance or go hungry.
  A bill that helped families would include provisions for childcare 
and paid family leave, but Republicans only want to force women to give 
birth. After they do that, they don't care about the child or the 
mother. In fact, they seem to want to control who can get pregnant in 
the first place.
  We must do everything we can to stop this extreme and unpopular 
Republican agenda.

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