[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16762]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   ``HOLD ONTO YOUR WALLET'' CONGRESS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, well, here we are again. Another day, 
another several billion dollars in new spending proposed by this ``Hold 
Onto Your Wallet'' Congress. They have already passed the largest tax 
increase in history, and they spend too much money.
  Today's tax du jour comes in the form of the Foreign Ops bill. The 
bloated 2008 spending bill will fork over $34 billion of your tax 
money, an increase of more than $3 billion. A subtle change means that 
under the current bill language, the Mexico City policy, which assures 
that nongovernmental entities that promote abortion would not be 
provided U.S. funding, could be completely disregarded and these 
entities would receive U.S. taxpayer funds.
  The provision would mandate U.S. subsidies to organizations that 
actively promote abortion in foreign nations. Abortion has been a 
tragedy for many women here in the U.S., and it will carry with it the 
same hurt and trauma when it's used abroad.
  If this language stays in the bill, the American taxpayer would be 
actually paying for an abortion for someone half a world away. I urge 
my colleagues to vote against new spending and ``no'' for taxpayer-
sponsored abortions.

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