[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2449-2462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             FULL-YEAR CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2011

  The Committee resumed its sitting.
  Mr. BUCSHON. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Indiana is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. BUCSHON. Madam Chairman, I rise today in support of the Pence 
amendment that prohibits any funds from the underlying bill going to 
Planned Parenthood of America. I want to start with a personal story as 
a physician.
  I performed lifesaving surgery on infants as young as 22 weeks' 
gestation at birth. Madam Chairman, I have held these lives in my own 
hands. They are viable human lives at birth and, unfortunately, Planned 
Parenthood uses taxpayer funds to cut these lives short; tragically, 
sometimes within weeks of medically proven viability outside the womb. 
Again, I have held these lives in my hands.
  Abortion, of course, for any reason is wrong, but this situation I 
have personal experience with is particularly distressing for me 
because I am a physician and also I am a father of four.
  I want to reiterate that Planned Parenthood has received $363.2 
million in taxpayer funding as of its 2009 annual report, one-third of 
their $1 billion income. During that same time period, Planned 
Parenthood-supported clinics performed over 324,000 abortions, and this 
is by their own accounting. Federal taxpayers should not be asked to 
subsidize these actions.
  In addition, Madam Chairman, currently in Planned Parenthood there 
are 11 clinics under investigation in Arizona, Ohio, Connecticut, 
California and Tennessee, among other States, including my own State of 
Indiana, where in 2008 a video showed a Planned Parenthood clinic 
covering up a rape of a 13-year-old girl. Can everyone see a pattern 
here? In total, Planned Parenthood is facing 107 criminal charges, 
including 23 felony charges. What they are doing is not only morally 
wrong, but appears to be criminally negligent.
  Press reports have recently said that Planned Parenthood is now 
mandating by 2013 that all of its regional affiliates must provide 
abortions. It is important to note that the amendment does not affect 
title X services such as breast cancer screening, HIV prevention, STD 
testing and other valuable health care services to women.
  This amendment is about abortion, in contrast to what has been said 
here on the House floor earlier tonight. Title X supports 4,500 
community clinics throughout America that provide critical services, 
which I support, and I am proud of these facilities for the quality of 
care that they provide.
  Again, this amendment is about abortion. I strongly support it. I 
urge all my colleagues to vote ``yes,'' and I would like to thank the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence) for his strong leadership on this 
amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. WELCH. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Vermont is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. WELCH. Madam Speaker, I am pro-choice. But that is a question of 
deep conscience, religious conviction, and of personal importance to 
every individual and every family.
  One of the great conservatives who has served in this institution was 
Henry Hyde. The Hyde amendment, which has been the law of the land 
since it was passed by Mr. Hyde, says that there shall not be public 
funds that are used to pay for abortions. That is true now. It has been 
true for decades since that law was passed. It reflects a certain 
mutual respect that we can have differences of opinion, even on matters 
of profound religious conviction, moral conviction, and moral belief.
  This is not about abortion. The Hyde amendment is the law of the 
land. Federal funds cannot be used under this provision to provide 
abortions. What this is about is whether primary and preventive care is 
going to be extended, oftentimes to poor people, but also to vulnerable 
middle class people by Planned Parenthood clinics throughout this 
country, including 10 in Vermont that are doing a tremendous job for 
people who really need this care.
  Is this Congress big enough, generous enough that it can allow those 
with different points of view on this question of choice to coexist as 
long as we have the separation with the Hyde amendment? It has not been 
abolished. It is intact. So the question I ask is if we pass this bill, 
what happens to the 19,000 Vermonters who get services for HIV testing, 
who get services for breast cancer screening, who get services for 
cervical cancer, who find out when it's timely to find out so they can 
be healthy and have a full life? What do we say to them when we pull 
the plug on them having the access to the care that they need and they 
deserve? This is not necessary.
  This is not about abortion. The real-world implication of this 
legislation will be to say to 19,000 women in the State of Vermont, 
from one end of the State to the other, No, you cannot have access to 
cervical cancer screening, you can't have breast cancer screening, you 
can't get evidence-based sex education. We are a better Nation than 
that. We are a better Congress than that.
  The Hyde amendment acknowledges that we have profound differences of 
opinion on this question of abortion, but we can share a common goal 
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young, vulnerable Americans in every one of our districts can have 
access to the care that they need.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Chairwoman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from North Carolina is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Thank you, Madam Chair. I came tonight to support the Pence 
amendment.
  I just came from my office where I was reading and answering my mail. 
My tax-paying constituents emphatically do not want their hard-earned 
money being used to kill innocent life.
  Planned Parenthood currently has 87 regional affiliates with 817 
health clinics in the U.S., with 173 performing surgical abortions, and 
many others--at least 131 and as many as 300--offering chemical 
abortions. Planned Parenthood itself has recently made plain the 
centrality of abortion to its mission, mandating that every Planned 
Parenthood affiliate have at least one clinic performing abortions 
within the next 2 years.
  Planned Parenthood reports that it's a not-for-profit organization 
and receives over $336 million in combined Federal, State, and local 
grants and contracts and had an excess of revenue over expenses of 
almost $112 million in 2006, $85 million in 2007, and $106 million in 
2008. Planned Parenthood in California has privately admitted to 
overcharging the State and Federal Governments by at least $180 million 
for birth control pills, despite internal and external warnings that 
its billing practices were improper.
  My colleague from Indiana gave also a lot of statistics about what 
the problems are with Planned Parenthood. Despite it being a billion-
dollar-a-year corporation, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million 
reported in its 2008-2009 annual report, 33 percent of that income from 
government grants and contracts, that is, from taxpayer dollars. Of 
that, $53 million is from title X. So from these other government 
sources they're getting $310 million.
  We are not going to be stopping Planned Parenthood from giving true 
health care to women and children. We know that the vast majority of 
Americans oppose abortion. Over 60 percent oppose any money coming from 
taxpayer receipts for abortions.
  My colleague from New York talked about this being a bill of 
attainder and said that this is a punishment. Well, ladies and 
gentlemen, I'm less concerned about the potential that this is a 
punishment for Planned Parenthood, but I am very concerned about the 
punishment inflicted on millions of innocent lives when they are 
violently deprived of their lives through abortion in Planned 
Parenthood clinics.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Chair, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to this 
amendment that attacks Planned Parenthood. By targeting Planned 
Parenthood, the Pence amendment will risk the lives and safety of 
millions of American women. These proposed cuts to family planning 
represent the opening salvo in an all-out war on women's health. I have 
been a soldier on the other side of that war for several decades. I 
have served now in three legislatures. In two of them this was one of 
the issues that came up continuously, is what we would do. In most 
cases, men in either blue or gray suits felt compelled and competent to 
tell women what they could do with their lives.
  It has been a serious problem to try to get women's health in the 
first place. It was up to the 1990s before women were even considered 
subject for research at the NIH. It has been an absolute awful time for 
most of us who are such strong believers in the rights of women and 
women's health and that women should have the ability to make decisions 
themselves and not have men have to make them for them. It has been a 
dreadful time for us to see ending tonight in trying to do away with 
one of the most important agencies in the United States, Planned 
Parenthood.
  I stand here tonight in lieu of hundreds of women in the State of New 
York, most of them Republican women, who financed, who spoke for, who 
founded the agency of Planned Parenthood. New York was being filled 
with an influx of new citizens to America and Planned Parenthood 
allowed them to space their children so that there would be healthier 
children and healthier mothers. And we have all benefited from that.
  But why are we attacking proven medical care? Why aren't we trying to 
create jobs, which is the only thing we've heard about for the last 6 
months? This amendment will do absolutely nothing to move our country 
forward, but indeed backward.
  In my own State of New York, the cuts to Planned Parenthood would 
affect 209,410 patients. Don't tell me that what you're doing here 
tonight is to allow Planned Parenthood to keep on with the cancer 
screenings, to keep on making sure that cervical cancer is not 
something about to take the life of a woman. Don't tell me that you are 
only trying to cut abortion. You know, we know, everybody knows that 
Planned Parenthood abortion money is not public tax money. As my other 
colleagues have said, that has been true for a very long time.
  The cuts were proposed under the guise of being fiscally responsible, 
but nothing could be further from the truth. For every dollar--and I 
want to say this maybe twice, it's so important, because nobody seems 
to have gotten this except my new friend from Illinois--for every 
dollar invested in family planning services, taxpayers save $4. So if 
you think you're going to save yourself some money, go back to your 
planning board for that. But cutting family planning is not fiscally 
responsible and will not reduce the United States' bottom line.
  Furthermore, as we've said over and over again, it has nothing in the 
world to do with cutting Federal money for abortions. That is simply a 
smokescreen. We want to empower women to be able to prevent unintended 
pregnancies, and that's what we would like to do here tonight with the 
help of Planned Parenthood and other agencies and doctors and medical 
professionals in the country--make sure that women have education and 
access to contraception. That is precisely what family planning is and 
what it does.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. ROKITA. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Indiana is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. ROKITA. Thank you, Madam Chair.
  I rise in support of the Pence amendment. The time has come to end 
Federal funding of abortion. This is one of the worst misappropriations 
of funds in our Federal budget and it is unacceptable to most of the 
people--Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative--in this country. 
Many taxpayers, including me, are sickened that their hard-earned tax 
dollars are put toward funding the nearly 1.3 million abortions in 
America every year. The minority party's demagoguery and demagoging 
language about some kind of war on women is nothing but laughable.
  Plenty of family planning services outside of Planned Parenthood 
exist to help families seeking direction, care and counsel. Those 
ethically sound places and services deserve a portion of funds to 
continue their much needed and well-respected services.
  But our nation's largest provider of abortions isn't one of them. 
Under title X, Federal funds go directly to Planned Parenthood where 
the money ultimately funds abortion and this is one of the worst 
stipulations in current law. Again and again, Planned Parenthood has 
proven itself corrupt and misleading. No American who is against 
abortion should be required to help pay for it. And no American can 
seriously argue that the Federal Government isn't paying for abortion 
right now, when Planned Parenthood receives at

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least $360 million from the taxpayers each year while simultaneously 
performing more than 324,000 abortions.
  Regarding the gentleman from New York's charge that we should be 
using a bill of attainder and challenging us to say otherwise, I take 
that challenge, as a person licensed to practice law in Indiana and 
licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. I would 
say that the bill of attainder, this amendment is not that.
  The people of the Fourth District of the State of Indiana and their 
Representative have the right to produce an amendment to stop taxpayer 
funding of abortions, and we are doing that here tonight.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. WAXMAN. A number of our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle, the Republican side of the aisle, have said they don't want 
abortion to be funded and, therefore, they're going to vote for the 
Pence amendment. But they believe that people ought to be able to get 
the clinical and preventive services that a group like Planned 
Parenthood would otherwise make available to them.
  Well, look. Planned Parenthood does not pay for anybody's abortion 
using taxpayers' dollars. That is clearly in the law. It's covered by 
the Hyde amendment. If Planned Parenthood has abortion services, it is 
completely separate. It is not only separate from family planning 
services and others for which they get government funding, they have to 
keep separate records. It's a completely different operation.
  So the Pence amendment is trying to strike the funds under the health 
and human services programs for the services that Planned Parenthood as 
an organization would provide for them. Now it's not just family 
planning funds. It's all Federal programs, including Medicaid and the 
community health centers program. This organization serves 15 percent 
of all women in need of contraceptive services in the U.S., and for 
millions of women, it is their primary health care provider, the place 
they go to not only for planning services but basic preventive health 
services such as cancer screenings.
  Take that money away from them, they're not going to be able to serve 
the women who need those services. So where will those people go? Are 
they going to go to the community health centers? Well, this particular 
funding bill takes out a billion dollars from the community health 
centers. Where else can they go? Are they going to look to the Medicaid 
program? One of the entitlements that the Republicans most want to 
savage is Medicaid. Then where can they go? Are they going to go to the 
exchange in a couple of years that will be available under the 
Affordable Care Act? Of course not. The Republicans are trying to 
repeal that law.
  What will be the consequences? The consequences will not diminish the 
number of abortions. The consequences will be to deny women, and men, 
who may go to a clinic or to Planned Parenthood in order to get basic 
medical services. I think this is a serious mistake. If you're against 
abortion, be against abortion. But don't take it out on Planned 
Parenthood because they serve abortion clients in a separate operation. 
That's like saying I never want to pay for any services provided by a 
doctor, even though it's not abortion services. I don't want that 
doctor getting any money for contraceptive services. I don't want that 
doctor to be paid if he's providing screening for venereal disease. I 
don't want that doctor to be paid for any other service because he 
might also, without your funds being used, provide abortion services.
  When you look at this carefully, this is trying to punish Planned 
Parenthood. But the ones who get punished are the people who won't be 
able to get the family planning services and the preventive screening 
services that Planned Parenthood regularly provides, and they won't be 
the only provider for many of these women because they have nowhere 
else to go if they can't afford to go see a private doctor and pay for 
it.
  I thought it was amazing to hear an argument that was made on the 
House floor that one Member didn't like money to go to Planned 
Parenthood because they're competing with for-profit abortion services. 
I just was stunned by that argument. I didn't know what it meant, 
except perhaps they'd like to have the private, for-profit abortion 
services be able to provide the services instead of Planned Parenthood.
  Whatever happens there is another issue, because Federal dollars, 
taxpayers' money, will not be used for it. But taxpayers' dollars 
should be used for title X family planning, for Medicaid, for community 
health centers, for health screening, for preventive health services, 
and that's why the Pence amendment should be defeated.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. OLSON. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. OLSON. Madam Chair, I rise today to support the Pence amendment, 
which would prohibit any Federal funding from going to Planned 
Parenthood. I want to thank my friend from Indiana who continues to 
fight tirelessly to ensure that organizations that promote and perform 
abortions do not receive Federal funding from hardworking taxpayers in 
this country, the majority of whom do not want their money going to 
such causes.
  In June, I received a report I requested from the Government 
Accountability Office which revealed that just six organizations 
connected to the abortion agenda received over $1 billion in Federal 
funds over the past 8 years. One billion dollars. The most significant 
portion of that money was for Planned Parenthood and their affiliates, 
the largest abortion provider in the United States.
  A recent Planned Parenthood reporting shows that in 2007 alone, 
305,000 abortions were performed at their facilities. Planned 
Parenthood recently opened a new facility in Houston, right in the 
middle of Houston's largest minority neighborhoods. At seven stories 
high and 78,000 square feet, this center is their largest center in the 
United States. An entire floor is going to be completely devoted to 
abortions.
  If we keep sending Federal funds to abortion providers, we are 
supporting abortion advocates everywhere with our taxpayer dollars, 
allowing them to build more mega-centers such as the one in my 
hometown.

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  It is time to renew this call and to bring light to this issue. The 
transfer of taxpayer funds that supports such organizations must stop. 
I am proud to have once again introduced the Taxpayer Conscience 
Protection Act, a bill that requires each State to report annually to 
the HHS Secretary the amount of funding which is sent to organizations 
like Planned Parenthood.
  Before I conclude my remarks, I have to point out to my colleagues on 
the other side of the aisle that the Pence amendment does not--does 
not--cut any funding for health services. It simply blocks those funds 
from Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country. 
There are many health clinics, hospitals, faith-based organizations, 
and many more that also provide health services for women. We must 
shine a bright light on the exorbitant amounts of money that taxpayers 
provide each year for abortions.
  I ask my colleagues to stand beside our colleague from Indiana in 
this fight by voting a resounding ``yes'' on his amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Florida is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. DEUTCH. Madam Chair, I do not believe that the government should 
interfere with the reproductive rights of a woman, but that is not what 
is being debated here.
  No matter how many times our friends on the other side of the aisle 
say that this is an amendment meant to prevent Federal dollars from 
going to fund abortions, it will not make it true; it will not make it 
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what this is about. We have heard all of the statistics. We know what 
this is about.
  I would like to spend a moment talking about how this whole debate is 
viewed around the country. I would like to spend a minute talking about 
what the country ought to look like for my daughters and for my son.
  In this amendment, we can envision a Nation where there might be a 
place for sex education to be taught in a scientific and comprehensive 
way, which might actually reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, 
which might actually reduce teen pregnancies, and which will keep our 
American children and young women healthy.
  We might actually envision a country where we have testing for 
sexually transmitted diseases and where, if caught, we can help make 
the Nation healthier.
  Madam Chair, we also have an opportunity here tonight to think about 
a Nation where women have the opportunity to seek the health care they 
need and deserve--poor women oftentimes who might have no place else to 
go but who can have an opportunity to get the health care they need and 
to get the cancer screenings they need, screenings that can save their 
lives.
  We can envision all of these things in this amendment.
  Ladies and gentlemen, we know what Planned Parenthood provides in 
these clinics: 95 percent of what they provide is health care that does 
exactly what we want done in this country; 95 percent of what Planned 
Parenthood does helps keep Americans healthy. It helps take care of 
women, and it helps make sure that they are better mothers. It helps 
make sure that their families can be taken care of, and it helps 
identify cancer before it's too late so that kids can grow up with 
their mothers.
  We understand what this amendment is about. This is not an amendment 
about abortion. This is an amendment about clamping down on a clinic 
that provides medical services whose politics those on the other side 
simply do not agree with. This is about the opportunity to move forward 
with something that can provide those health care services: with 
clinics that can help save lives.
  We can do all of that right here in this House.
  Members, I ask, as we go forward today, that we think about the 
opportunity we have here to cast a vote that supports women, to cast a 
vote that supports families, and to take what will be the most pro-
family vote we will have an opportunity to cast in this CR debate: that 
is a vote against this amendment.
  I urge my colleagues to do so.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. HUELSKAMP. I move to strike the last word, Madam Chair.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Kansas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. HUELSKAMP. Madam Chair, I rise in support of the Pence amendment 
for a number of reasons.
  As was indicated, I do come from the State of Kansas; and in 
listening to the debate this evening, it is rather interesting to find 
very little support for actually the institution of Planned Parenthood 
and for a full discussion of what they have been involved in.
  Two days ago in the State of Kansas, another hearing was conducted. 
Charges are moving forward--107 criminal charges against Planned 
Parenthood. It is very interesting. It is an entity under criminal 
indictment for covering up more than 100 crimes: failures to report; 
helping to cover up incest, rape. The list goes on and on. It has 
happened in multiple States, a young lady by the name of Lila Rose has 
indicated.
  If you don't believe me, take a look at the tapes, Madam Chair. Take 
a look at the tapes of how Planned Parenthood is helping sexual 
predators continue their activities.
  I would also like to point out one thing that we cannot forget. I 
must admit I am certainly disappointed that our Supreme Court claims 
that there is somehow a right to abortion. We do know there is no right 
to the Public Treasury; there is no right to the taxpayer dollar; there 
is no right to demand that Americans front this organization with their 
taxpayer money.
  That is the question of this amendment, Madam Chair.
  There is another question to face here, and we need to be very clear. 
My wife and I have four adopted children, and they're watching tonight. 
They're adopted children, and they come from a group of children the 
history of Planned Parenthood has targeted: minorities. My children are 
adopted. They're the very type of children this organization targets, 
and there is evidence it still continues today. Undercover work has 
shown again and again how this organization locates in minority 
neighborhoods.
  Madam Chair, it is not only fiscally irresponsible to send our 
taxpayer dollars to this type of entity and organization; I think it is 
morally reprehensible that we would send $300 million of our hard-
earned money to an entity that targets minorities, that helps sexual 
predators, that continues to cover up rape and incest and sex slavery. 
There is no excuse for that.
  Everyone in this body should be standing on their feet and 
recognizing that, no matter your position on the issue of abortion, we 
should all agree: Our taxpayer dollars are undeserving of the efforts 
of Planned Parenthood. The history is clear. The present is clear. It 
is time to defund this entity. They are unworthy of our dollars.
  With that, Madam Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. LYNCH. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 
5 minutes.
  Mr. LYNCH. I would be remiss if I did not thank the Speaker, Speaker 
Boehner, for the open rule that we have been working under for the past 
several days. Even though we have not agreed on much, probably not 
anything, I do appreciate the fact that we have been able to have a 
fair and open debate on some of the most profound issues of our time.
  I am hoping earnestly this is not the last open rule we have. I know 
that it has turned 3 days of debate into 6 or 7 days of debate. There 
has been a lot of hot air in this Chamber. I think if this Chamber were 
a hot air balloon, we could probably make Europe. But I do think there 
is credit due to the Speaker for allowing this debate to occur.
  I do want to remind the Members, in spite of some of the 
pronouncements of the previous speaker, that there is fixed law that 
prevents Federal funding from being used for abortion. That is really 
not what this is about. This is about the ability of Planned Parenthood 
to conduct women's health care, to offer services that are deeply 
needed in many communities where no other source of health care is 
available.
  Planned Parenthood last year carried out 1 million screenings for 
cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams and offered nearly 4 million 
tests and treatments for STDs, including HIV. Those are the services 
they provide. They are prohibited by law by the Hyde amendment from 
using Federal funds for abortions. That is a fact. You can be entitled 
to your own opinion, but that is a fact.
  I am a pro-life Democrat. I am a pro-life Democrat, and my faith 
informs my position on this issue. There used to be, I think, a general 
agreement, as divisive as this debate is and has been in this country 
for years, there has been a level of agreement that we have reached 
where I think we agreed at one point in this country that the best way 
to reduce abortion in this country is to prevent unwanted pregnancies. 
We used to agree on that. This bill, this amendment, will increase the 
number of abortions in this country.
  The heart of what Planned Parenthood does is in the area of 
contraceptives and medical screenings for cervical cancer and breast 
cancer. But contraception is a big part of what they do in trying to 
reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.
  If we take the funding away from them, and it says all funding--all 
funding. It doesn't distinguish. All funding out of title X is 
prohibited from Planned Parenthood. So let's not play a game about what 
you are against and

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what you are for. This is for all funding. That is what the bill says.
  And if you prevent Planned Parenthood from providing advice and 
services on contraception, we know for a certainty, especially in the 
communities that they provide services to, we are going to have an 
increase in the number of abortions in this country. That is the 
natural consequence of what is on the table here in this amendment. You 
are going to reduce funding for contraception; you are going to have 
more unwanted pregnancies, and you are going to have more abortions.
  Is that is what this debate is about? Is that what we are trying to 
do here?
  I used to think it was different. I thought we had some level of 
agreement on this, that the goal was to reduce the number of unwanted 
pregnancies and that is how we were going to reduce abortions in this 
country.
  I am disheartened by this amendment. I wish that the gentleman would 
withdraw this amendment because I think it is counterproductive to the 
goal of reducing the number of abortions in this country.
  And as a family who has been affected by cervical cancer and breast 
cancer, I think that is very important work that they do. And I support 
that.
  I don't have many friends in the Planned Parenthood community. They 
don't support me. I am pro-life. But I respect the good work that they 
do.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. GOHMERT. I rise in support of the Pence amendment, and I am aware 
of some very helpful work that Planned Parenthood has done to help some 
women with some difficult medical issues. But we have heard discussion 
here about a bill of attainder. And Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 
says: No bill of attainder or ex post facto law will be passed. That is 
the Constitution.
  A bill of attainder, according to William Rehnquist, is: a 
legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed 
punishment on them, without benefit of trial.
  No one is being found guilty of a crime here. I know about those 
things. I have found people guilty of crimes after a trial. That is not 
what is happening here any more than it was what was happening when 
people decided to defund Guantanamo Bay or defund ACORN because they 
were complicit in encouraging prostitution.
  To come in here and say that when this body finds that one entity 
does not deserve to be receiving more money that was pried out of 
taxpayers' hands is somehow a bill of attainder, then it means we can 
never withdraw money from someone to whom it was given previously. That 
is not a bill of attainder. In fact, to take it away, one would first 
have to assume that this money was the property of this entity before 
they ever received it.
  Now, that would be like saying that the taxpayers that earned the 
money and the taxpayers that had to give it up because we stole it, but 
we legalized the theft because we can do that, we can say, You earned 
it. It is yours, but we have the power to legalize taking it away from 
you against your will. We have done that. We have taken it away. But we 
have a responsibility to be frugal and to be wise.
  No, I will not yield. I didn't ask to be yielded to when I was being 
upset by the explanation inappropriately of a bill of attainder. But I 
know the gentleman is one of the smartest people I know, but this is 
not a bill of attainder.
  The F-35, we voted on a second engine. Well, there had been money 
appropriated, supposedly, before. They could come in and say it is a 
bill of attainder to take it away. It is not. It is not their money.
  This body has an obligation to investigate and to look carefully as 
to where we should most appropriately spend the taxpayers' money that 
we have taken, or the 42 cents out of the dollar now we are borrowing 
from China, or whoever will give us the money.
  But it was never the intention of the founders that we could not be 
responsible as a body and say this shouldn't go to this place; it would 
be better served going somewhere else. That is our job, and we have an 
obligation.
  One other thing, and to those who say, and I know well meaning, 
because I know the people who are saying it and I know their hearts and 
I know they really believed what they were saying. But I have got Part 
1 of the act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the 
first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces 
and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes, which is 
ObamaCare, because the Senate stripped out every word of the bill, 
including the title, and substituted, therefore, ObamaCare. This is the 
first half of the bill. And if you turn over, if you turn over to page 
119, (B) subsection; says it: Abortions for which public funding is 
prohibited. But if you go to subsection (ii), it has this title: 
Abortions for which public funding is allowed.
  That's not all. Legal clinics are financed and are required to be 
financed under this bill, and there is no prohibition either by the 
Hyde amendment or any provision in this bill or the Executive order 
that legally prevents Federal funding for allowing abortions in some of 
those medical clinics that are established and will happen.
  Also, if you flip over here--and you wouldn't find this in a word 
search for ``abortion'' because it was too cleverly put back. But if 
you look at 122, it is required to have insurance plans, and there will 
be Federal funding involved to make this happen, that there be ``at 
least one such plan that provides coverage of services described in 
clauses (i) and (ii) of subsection (B).''
  That is abortion, folks. There is money for it here.

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  Mrs. MALONEY. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from New York is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. MALONEY. I rise in strong opposition to the Pence amendment, 
which will eliminate all funding for the many services provided by 
Planned Parenthood. That's the amendment that is before us, not the 
other items that other people are talking about.
  This amendment is not merely anti-choice. It is also anti-health, 
anti-woman, and anti-poor, and is a thinly veiled attack on birth 
control. This amendment will not do anything to grow our economy or 
create any new jobs to help us out of this great recession. It will 
only turn this Nation backwards.
  Planned Parenthood is the Nation's largest provider of family 
planning services; and for roughly 60 percent of their patients, they 
serve as the primary care physicians, as 90 percent of the health care 
they provide every day is primary and preventive.
  This is not about abortion. The Hyde amendment is alive and well, and 
it prevents and restricts any use of Federal funds for abortion. This 
is about primary and preventive health care. This anti-woman amendment 
will restrict millions of women from access to family planning, HIV 
testing and counseling, and breast and cervical cancer screening, 
leaving them with nowhere else to turn.
  The other side's vision of smaller government would expand the 
government's power over women's choices. It is wrong, it is 
shortsighted, and it is unjust. Instead of getting between a woman and 
her doctor, instead of allowing women to have control over their own 
health care, instead of forcing personal beliefs on half the 
population, let's turn to the business of creating jobs and economic 
opportunity and away from the business of ruling other people's lives.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on the Pence amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. ROBY. Madam Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Alabama is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. ROBY. I rise in support of the amendment.
  I oppose funding to Planned Parenthood. We should not be giving 
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funds to groups like Planned Parenthood that used the money for 
abortions. Planned Parenthood has recently made plain the centrality of 
abortion to its mission, mandating that every affiliate have at least 
one clinic performing abortions within the next 2 years.
  Additionally, it is beyond shocking that Planned Parenthood employees 
were recently found on video aiding and abetting in the alleged sex 
trafficking of minors. This is not the first time that Planned 
Parenthood has shown such shocking behavior. It happened in my home 
State of Alabama back in 2009. A Planned Parenthood counselor was 
caught on hidden camera telling an alleged 14-year-old statutory rape 
victim that the clinic does sometimes bend the rules a bit rather than 
report sexual abuse to State authorities. Two years later, we are still 
seeing this outrageous behavior by Planned Parenthood employees.
  It is time to stop funding such an organization with taxpayer 
dollars. Planned Parenthood ignores statutory rape law reporting, 
pushes abortion procedures, and opposes any effort to elevate the legal 
status of a fetus at any stage of development. It is not a proud day 
that citizens learned that these activities have been continually 
funded by the Federal Government. It is even a worse day when we are 
told that our government has funded Planned Parenthood with more than 
$363 million in government grants and contracts. The continual action 
by Planned Parenthood and its employees is demeaning for women and a 
black eye for our society.
  Planned Parenthood in Kansas claims to be a trusted source of health 
care and education for thousands of women, men and children; yet it was 
charged with 107 criminal counts, including failure to report sexual 
abuse and falsifying documents in order to perform illegal late-term 
abortions. Planned Parenthood in California has privately admitted to 
overcharging the State and Federal Government by at least $180 million 
for birth control pills despite internal and external warnings that its 
billing practices were improper.
  Planned Parenthood in Indiana has been accused of endangering the 
safety and well-being of minor girls by intentionally circumventing 
State parental involvement laws and breaking State laws by refusing to 
report statutory rape. Funding must be stopped. Planned Parenthood must 
not be granted any more taxpayer dollars to push their agenda to take 
away the rights of the unborn. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on 
the Pence amendment and stop the funding of Planned Parenthood.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Madam Chairman, I don't doubt that the 
gentleman from Indiana is sincere. We all know him, and we know the 
longstanding commitment that he has had to this issue. But having 
served on the Judiciary Committee with the late Chairman Henry Hyde, I 
know how sincere he was in the work that he did to ensure that no 
Federal funds could be used for abortion. That is the law of the land.
  I also know how committed our colleague from Massachusetts is to his 
values of pro-life; but he eloquently stood on the floor of the House 
and gave us a moral compass. This is not about abortion. This is about 
saving lives. And the Planned Parenthood effort, albeit with ills that 
any large organization may have--corrected ills, has a valuable and 
worthy purpose in saving lives. My fear is with the Pence amendment 
having the potential of passing, that we set the stage for going back 
10, 20, 30, 40 years when women had no place to seek counseling. They 
know well that the adherence to the law that the Planned Parenthood 
organization must have is that they cannot use Federal funds for 
abortion.
  But this is not about abortion. This is about family planning and 
counseling services that have long been part of the Planned Parenthood 
family. And all we'll do by cutting these resources will be, in fact, 
going back to the dark ages when young women had no place to go. So 
Planned Parenthood does not equate to abortion. Family planning does 
not equate to abortion. Title X funds do not equate to abortion because 
the law of the land is clear. But what we will have are young women who 
will have no place to go to be able to ask questions.
  Yes, the Planned Parenthood facility is in the 18th Congressional 
District in Houston, Texas, a heavily diverse but heavily minority 
district; and I would argue that its efforts are positive in health 
education, the work it does, in Pap tests for cervical cancer, in STD 
testing, in menopause and hormone treatment, in urinary tract 
treatment, in breast exams, and in outreach to the Latino community, 
all services that would not be there if it was not for these committed 
workers and the committed Office of Planned Parenthood.
  Community health clinics, to be gutted. And as was indicated, all the 
work that we're doing on the floor of the House, the question has to 
be, one, are we going forward in helping the American people create 
jobs? Or even in this amendment, causing thousands of Americans to lose 
their jobs in a worthy cause of helping those who many times cannot 
help themselves? What about those who have suffered a violent act of 
sexual assault? Where do they go? What do we say about a Planned 
Parenthood who, throughout its existence over the last couple of 
decades, has received violent threats, bomb threats? I am reminded of 
the police support that this local chapter had to have because of the 
constant threats upon their staff.
  So this is not all peaches and roses. We are simply standing here and 
saying, allow them to do their work, which is assisting a young woman 
by the name of Karen, 28 years old, who was between jobs, newly 
married, and did not have any health care. She saw the results of a 
pregnancy test that she got from the drugstore and couldn't believe 
what it said.

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  She didn't know where else to go. She was frightened, 28 years old. 
But she went to Planned Parenthood. And what she said, without any 
pressure, she had the test and discovered that she was pregnant. And 
the nurse didn't ask her any indicting question; simply said, what do 
you want to do? And she thought about it, and she decided to say she 
wanted to have the baby.
  Don't let those stories go untold where women are counseled and they 
go forth with their plans with the idea that they have someone to help 
them along, even provide them with services to be able to carry that 
baby to term.
  So I simply want to say, they have suffered enough violence for 
Planned Parenthood. Let's not have more violence on the floor of the 
House, and let's vote down this particular amendment to continue them 
serving the women that need to be served.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CULBERSON. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Pence 
amendment. It's important to note that the Hyde amendment has been in 
place for decades. There's overwhelming support among the American 
people that we don't want our tax dollars used to subsidize or support 
abortion in any way. And people listening to the debate tonight, those 
on the floor, pro-life Democrats, no matter who you are, shouldn't be 
distracted by the discussion of the family, the health care services 
provided by the organization Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood 
could solve this public policy problem they've got by simply refusing 
to perform abortions. If they stop performing abortions this is not an 
issue. If Planned Parenthood would stop turning a blind eye or, at 
best, stop being indifferent to the criminal conduct that's been 
exposed at their facilities and lead the charge to see that criminal 
complaints are sworn out against people associated with Planned 
Parenthood or their employees engaged in criminal conduct, a lot of 
this problem would go away. All Planned Parenthood has to do is say 
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to stop performing abortions. And yet they won't do it.
  This is not about the health care services that they provide in other 
areas. This is about the fact that the overwhelming majority of 
Americans do not want our tax dollars used to subsidize or pay for 
abortions. This is a very straightforward vote tonight for all of the 
Members of the House, whether or not you will vote to permit your 
constituents' tax dollars to be used to fund or subsidize abortion. 
That's the question before the House tonight. It's not complicated. And 
Planned Parenthood is not entitled to these dollars, these tax dollars. 
There's no punishment being given here. Planned Parenthood, we, as a 
Congress will make the public policy decision here tonight in this 
debate, in this vote, whether or not Planned Parenthood should continue 
to receive tax dollars. That's been decided for decades. No tax dollars 
should be used to subsidize or fund abortion. That's been the position 
of the Congress through the Hyde amendment for many, many decades, and 
we're continuing that tradition tonight by ensuring that no tax dollars 
flow through Obamacare, which, by the way, does allow our tax dollars 
to be used for abortion because what is not excluded is included, and 
the Obamacare bill allows for our tax dollars to be used for abortion 
by subsidizing exchange plans that provide coverage for abortion. 
Therefore, this vote is truly very simple. Will we, the Congress of the 
United States, permit our tax dollars to be used to subsidize or fund 
abortion? It's an up-or-down vote.
  I yield to the gentleman from Georgia.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Make no mistake about it. This is about 
abortion.
  Just prior to coming to the floor tonight, before this debate ever 
began, I was answering an email I got from a friend of mine in Atlanta. 
And he said, stop public funding of abortion. I was talking to him on 
the phone when I saw Mr. Pence come down here and start this debate. 
And he was telling me about his sister-in-law that had an abortion 
about 30 years ago. She has nightmares. She has visions of these two 
babies that she aborted.
  I'm a medical doctor. I've performed all these health services that 
my Democratic colleagues keep talking about, and I have for years. I 
like women. I'm married to one. I have two daughters. I have thousands 
of patients that I've seen over the years, and I've done pap smears and 
breast examinations and sexually transmitted disease tests and all 
those health care services that my Democrat colleagues keep talking 
about. This is not about that.
  We keep hearing about the Hyde amendment. And certainly the Hyde 
amendment is in place. But make no mistake about this. What Planned 
Parenthood does is the proverbial shell game, shifting funds so 
taxpayer dollars still go to an organization that provides abortion, 
and the more we pour money to this organization, the more abortions 
they're going to try to promote and provide. And, in fact, Planned 
Parenthood was established on the philosophy of eugenics. And they're 
still carrying out that philosophy. There are more black babies killed 
through abortion today proportionally than there are white babies or 
any other colored babies.
  And we've also seen tapes where Planned Parenthood operatives have 
even promoted that type thing.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROUN of Georgia. So this is all about preventing abortion. I 
know my Democrat colleagues are well-meaning. They all say the same 
talking points, and I believe in the depths of my heart that you all 
really believe what the Democratic colleagues say. And I know they're 
well-meaning.
  But the American people demand better. My patients demand better. The 
taxpayers, your taxpayers, Democratic colleagues, demand better.
  This is about abortion. Planned Parenthood is not going to shut down 
if the Pence amendment is passed and this continuing resolution is 
signed into law. Planned Parenthood won't go away. They can continue to 
supply the services that they get from other financial sources. They 
can continue to provide abortions. So it's not going to even stop that.
  I believe very firmly in my heart that we must stop abortions because 
these are babies. I introduced H.R. 212, which is the Sanctity of Human 
Life Act that defines life beginning at fertilization, and I know, as a 
medical doctor, that's when my life began, that's when all of our lives 
began.
  Those babies deserve the right of personhood. They deserve the right 
to live. So this debate is about life. It's about giving children the 
right to grow up and become functioning citizens in our society. And 
it's about taxpayers' funds continuing to support an organization, the 
largest provider of abortions in the world, to continue that process of 
killing babies. So we must take the taxpayer funds away.
  It's not going to stop Planned Parenthood from doing Pap smears, 
breast examinations, STD exams, all those things that my Democrat 
colleagues keep talking about. It's not going to stop that.
  What it will do is just take taxpayers dollars out of the equation. 
Planned Parenthood can no longer do the cost shifting, use taxpayer 
dollars for other purposes besides the stated purpose of abortion. And 
hopefully, they won't continue to provide abortions with taxpayer 
dollars. It's not fair to taxpayers. It's not fair to women. It's not 
fair to my patients. It's not fair to even the Planned Parenthood 
patients that are not seeking abortions.

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  I encourage my colleagues, let's have some sanity here. Let's have 
some civility here. Let's think about what really this is all about. 
It's about abortion, not providing health services to underprivileged 
women. I have provided those services. I have given away hundreds of 
thousands of dollars of my services over an almost four-decade career 
practicing family medicine.
  I care for my patients. I want them to have the services that they 
need. I have provided those services. But this is about abortion. Let's 
stop the funding of Planned Parenthood by taxpayer dollars. Let them do 
their business until we outlaw abortion. Hopefully, we can, because 
it's killing babies.
  You see, I don't believe that God can continue to bless America while 
we're killing 4,000 babies every day. They are babies. They are human 
beings. We treat green turtle eggs better than we treat human being 
babies in the womb. We've got to stop it.
  That's the reason I support the Pence amendment. That's the reason I 
hope all my colleagues and the American public will demand a stopping 
of the public funding of abortions through Planned Parenthood by 
supporting the Pence amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. MOORE. Madam Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Wisconsin is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. MOORE. I would plead with my colleagues to reject the Pence 
amendment and not to defund Planned Parenthood. And I mean that as a 
double entendre; to not defund the ability of women to plan parenthood. 
I know of what the previous speaker, the gentleman, referred.
  To all those well-meaning people who want to speak about the value of 
life and not funding contraception and not wanting to make an abortion, 
which is the law of the land, available if people would choose that. I 
am really touched by the passion of the opposite to want to save black 
babies.
  I can tell you, I know a lot about having black babies. I've had 
three of them. And I had my first one when I was 18 years old, at the 
ripe old age of 18. An unplanned pregnancy. And let me tell you, I went 
into labor, unfortunately, on New Year's Eve, had not even one dime. 
Phone calls cost a dime at that time. I didn't have a phone in my home 
and didn't have a dime to go to the phone booth to call an ambulance, 
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of money using Medicaid dollars, but I didn't have a car and didn't 
have cab fare.
  I just want to tell you a little bit about what it's like to not have 
Planned Parenthood. You have to add water to the formula to make it 
stretch. You have to give your kids Ramen noodles at the end of the 
month to fill up their little bellies so they won't cry. You have to 
give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fresh fruits and 
vegetables because they are expensive.
  It subjects children to low educational attainment because of the 
ravages of poverty. You know, one of the biggest problems that school 
districts have in educating some of these poor black children who are 
unplanned is that they are mobile; they are constantly moving because 
they can't pay the rent.
  And, yes, I heard many of you talk about sexual predators. It 
subjects them to sexual predators, as when you try to go out and do a 
little work you have to leave your kids with just anybody because you 
don't have $800 to $1,200 a month for child care.
  And let me tell you, you know, the public policy has treated poor 
children and women who have not had the benefit of Planned Parenthood 
with utter contempt. These same children, it has been very difficult to 
get them health insurance through CHIP.
  When you go to the grocery store to buy them a little birthday cake 
with your food stamps, everyone stares at you in contempt.
  And, yes, on a bipartisan basis, Democrats and Republicans ended the 
entitlement to Aid for Families With Dependent Children; so that when 
we have a recession like we have now, women, who are alone typically, 
poor, of color, with these poor black children, have no money, go 
months and months and months with little or nothing to sustain 
themselves.
  And you know, I recall that the first item on the YouCut Web site was 
to cut temporary assistance to needy families. And let me tell you what 
it does to women who cannot plan their parenthood. It derails their 
ability to complete education and training so they can get a job.
  The TANF law is very harsh. It won't even let women complete high 
school diplomas. It sends them into work fair programs and very low 
wage service industries, often jobs with no unemployment benefits. And 
of course, they are treated with contempt and disdain when they apply 
for any aid. They are humiliated.
  And so I would beg my colleagues, I would beg them to not defund 
Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is healthy for women, it's 
healthy for children, and it's healthy for our society.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Gingrey of Georgia). The gentlewoman from 
Tennessee is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. BLACK. Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the 
United States, receives millions of dollars in government aid, yet they 
are still classified as a nonprofit organization.
  From 2008 to 2009, Planned Parenthood received $363 million, which is 
one-third of their $1 billion income, from grants and contracts from 
Federal and State governments. And during that time, the number of 
abortions that they performed increased to a record number of 324,000. 
That's almost 25,000 from 2006 to 2007. And each fiscal year since 
2000, the government has increased its funding an average of $22 
million per year while the number of abortions they perform steadily 
increased. This occurred while the overall abortion rate in the United 
States declined.
  And despite all of this, we continue to give this organization 
money--millions--despite reports that Planned Parenthood clinics have 
failed to comply with State statutory rape reporting laws, often 
ignoring parental consent laws. And, most recently, a few have refused 
to report instances of sex trafficking of minors.
  Simple fact: Funding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates does not 
decrease abortions. It increases it.
  When I think of Planned Parenthood, I am immediately reminded of a 
night 20 years ago when I was working in the emergency room at 
Hendersonville Hospital.
  A 22-year-old girl presented after receiving an incomplete abortion 
from the Planned Parenthood clinic. She had no followup number, and she 
didn't know where to go to receive the care that she needed. 
Unfortunately, she waited at home, bleeding for hours before coming to 
the emergency room. But it was too late. And due to the excessive 
bleeding loss, her body responded by an uncontrollable clotting 
condition known as DIC, and at this point there was nothing we could 
do. We watched this young girl die. This young girl, with her whole 
life ahead of her, died that night.
  Stories like these are the everyday tragedies that go untold. That is 
why I stand here this hour to show my support for this amendment and 
for all of the continuing efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. I thank 
the gentleman from Indiana for introducing this vital amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Tennessee is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Chairman, this has been an interesting debate as we 
look at the 150 years back in history and we look at the Civil War. And 
as we look back at the Civil War, some people reenacting it as if it 
was a good event, we look at kind of a retreat in history here tonight.

                              {time}  2310

  It was 1965 when Griswold v. Connecticut, the 7-2 Supreme Court 
decision, said Planned Parenthood could not be prohibited by the 
government from giving contraceptive advice to married people, and we 
have come a long ways since then in terms of liberty. And I am kind of 
surprised as we get here in 2011 and we look at this House, and part of 
this House which claims to be so concerned about liberty and individual 
freedoms and individual rights is more hung up on the Tenth Amendment 
and something to do with States and Federals, rather than the Ninth 
Amendment and the penumbra right that gives women and individuals the 
right to make certain decisions.
  We have got a group over there really concerned about earmarks, yet 
what this is I would submit is not a bill of attainder; it is a reverse 
earmark, because you are saying who we can't give money to. And the 
logic I have heard from my friend from Georgia was that because even 
though we have the Hyde amendment which says Planned Parenthood can't 
use Federal funds for abortion because they do other Planned Parenthood 
activities, helping with HIV-AIDS screening, helping with cervical and 
breast cancer exams and treatments and other birth control-type 
activities other than abortion, because they do abortion too, this 
helps contribute in the milieu of their overall funding. With that 
logic, we wouldn't fund any hospital, any health clinic or any doctor 
that any part of their practice or any part of their operation has 
anything to do with abortion because the funds get commingled and it 
helps contribute to their ability to provide abortion.
  So the bottom line is this isn't is about Planned Parenthood. It is 
not the reverse earmarks that it is, that it picks out only Planned 
Parenthood, including Planned Parenthood in Memphis, Tennessee, that 
provides health care to over 5,000 women a year, low-income women a 
year who need information about how to plan their families other than 
just abstinence, that we know from Alaska to Florida has failed. This 
is an effort to take away from people an individual choice and to 
require and make the government, this government, this Congress, Big 
Government, the decider of individuals' lives rather than giving them 
some choice.
  I yield to the gentleman from New Jersey.
  Mr. PALLONE. I thank the gentleman.

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  I am just amazed by the extortion that I heard on the other side of 
the aisle tonight. Basically what the Republicans said is that if 
Planned Parenthood agreed not to perform abortions, then they could 
continue to perform their other functions. But if they insist on 
performing abortions, then we are going to starve them for money and 
they won't be able to provide contraceptives and family planning and 
all the other health care services for women that are so important 
here.
  To me, that is just an incredible statement, because essentially what 
you are saying is we will extort this. We don't really care about all 
these other services that they are providing. What we really care about 
is abortion. And if you sign on the dotted line, then you can continue 
to perform the other health care services, as long as you don't perform 
the service that is allowed under the law of the land.
  Now, I cannot believe that that was actually stated here this 
evening, because I know and we all know that all these other services, 
reproductive services and health care services, are so important for 
women, so important for families. For me to hear a Member on the other 
side suggest that somehow they are going to extort that and threaten 
that and hold that over everyone in order to accomplish this goal of 
saying you can't perform abortions I think is outrageous.
  I now understand what the purpose of this amendment is. It is to 
close down Planned Parenthood and all the good things that many of you 
admit they are actually doing just in order to accomplish this 
ideological goal related to abortion. I just think that is incredible. 
To me, frankly, for the first time I understand what it is all about.
  But let's not be hypocrites about this. If that is what you are 
about, then admit it. And one person did. The rest of you are going on 
and on about all of the terrible things that Planned Parenthood has 
done. Frankly, most of the men and women who perform the services at 
Planned Parenthood are very well-meaning people, and they shouldn't be 
attacked because of a few that haven't done the right thing.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Chairman, I have been a practicing physician for 
over 35 years. I have delivered hundreds of babies. You know, our 
President once said when asked when does life begin, he said, that is 
above my pay grade. Well, I can tell you, Mr. Chairman, it is not above 
my pay grade, and I can tell you as a scientist and as a physician that 
life begins at conception, and that is often forgotten in this Chamber 
right here.
  Abortion violates the very tenets, the simple tenets of our culture, 
and that is the killing of innocent life. But here is something else 
you don't hear much in this Chamber here today. How is it that human 
beings, how is it that Americans can decide to kill an innocent human 
life? The way we do it is through dehumanization; that is, we think of 
that unborn baby to be something inanimate or just a part of the body. 
I have seen people get more upset about a dying pet than they have in 
giving up their pregnancy through abortion.
  So I say to you, Mr. Chairman, here today that I rise in support of 
the Pence amendment. Yes, of course, money is fungible. Money goes in 
one end and then into another account and then on elsewhere. So 
anything that taxpayers do in terms of giving money to Planned 
Parenthood is subsidizing abortions. And we know that the American 
people by a small margin and a growing margin oppose abortion in 
general, but a wide margin of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of 
abortion.
  With that, I yield to the gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. KING of Iowa. I would like to thank the gentleman from Louisiana 
for addressing the House and for yielding to me, and all of those who 
have spoken on this issue.
  I recall back here on this floor in the early part of the session in 
2007 when the Mexico City vote came up, and I remember that debate here 
on this floor. I remember watching the vote go up on the board, the 
language that would compel American taxpayers to fund abortion in 
foreign lands. For the first time in years, the Democrats lost the 
debate but won the vote. And I saw Members over on this side of the 
floor jumping up and down, hugging themselves, cheering, cheering 
because of what? Because you had taken a step to compel Americans who 
are conscientiously objecting taxpayers to fund abortions in foreign 
lands.
  How could anyone cheer something like that? What was the moral 
standard that brought about such elation? It is a complete confusion to 
me to think that we can't even describe what this is.
  I brought some posters to the floor of the House Judiciary Committee 
last week that showed what dilation and evacuation is. It is 
dismemberment. Abortion. I don't know if there anybody in this Chamber 
that could actually witness a real abortion and stand there, let alone 
lend their hand to such a thing.
  But I remember buying the movie ``Silent Scream'' for my children 
when they were about 9, 10 and 11 years old and sitting on the floor in 
the living room and watching 8 minutes of parts of babies being put in 
a stainless steel pan and having an inventory done of a little foot, a 
little arm, a little leg, a little torso, a little crushed skull, until 
all the things added up, and then they sucked out the pieces that were 
missed.
  That is what is going on. And we are asking Americans to fund this 
through Planned Parenthood, or any other organization?
  Here is where I would agree with Mr. Cohen. I would go further than 
this. And he made the point--I know he wouldn't agree. I would say no 
funds should go to any entity that should perform such a ghastly, 
ghoulish and gruesome procedure, and this House cannot compel American 
taxpayers to do so. And we will stand tonight and we will put an end to 
the Federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and we will move on and we 
will shut off all of the funding to those entities that do that to our 
unborn children in this country.
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Chairman, I would like to say in conclusion to my 
remarks, and I thank the gentleman from Iowa, that tonight we are all 
getting tired. We have debated for 3 days and 3 nights. But in that 
same period of time, think about the number of babies who have been 
killed through abortion, through a sterile area where a doctor goes in 
and we have the usual instruments and so forth and the fetus sucked out 
of the womb and then the mom on with her life.

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  But we also know that statistics tell us that these mothers just 
don't go on with their lives, as has been suggested by the other side. 
The rate of depression, the rate of suicide, the rate of problems with 
future pregnancies increase dramatically after abortion.
  So tonight should be the beginning of the ending of this horrible 
practice.
  With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
  We were hired by our neighbors in our hometowns to come up to 
Washington and fight for jobs and help get the country back on the road 
to recovery. But instead, this Republican Congress is taking an extreme 
right turn right back into the dark ages because they are targeting a 
very important initiative that has provided fundamental health services 
to women since 1970 to say no more will women that depend on family 
planning in the United States of America have that lifeline any 
longer--that lifeline for breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer 
screenings, the annual Pap smear, for contraceptives. We can't go back 
to the dark ages--and we're not going to let you.
  As often as it has been misstated on this floor tonight, none of the 
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for family planning goes to pay for abortions. This is their false 
battle cry. In effect, what they're doing is they want to cut off the 
lifeline for mothers and daughters, aunts, your friends, your neighbors 
who sometimes don't have a place to go to afford that important 
doctor's visit. There seems to be little if any empathy for these women 
from the Republican side of the aisle, as they propose no alternative 
for providing this care, and they don't seem to realize or, frankly, 
care that unintended pregnancies will rise if this program is 
abolished.
  Cutting off these funds and eliminating this care for women will not 
stop abortion, which is their claim. Only family planning will stop 
abortion. The major consequence of wiping out title X, which really 
means that all-important trip to the doctor's office for a woman who 
doesn't have any place else to go for their breast cancer screening, 
their annual exam, the only consequence, major consequence, will be 
eliminating health care for millions of women while also increasing the 
bill to taxpayers. For every public dollar invested in family planning, 
taxpayers save $4.
  So attacking reproductive health care for women may make for very 
interesting politics, but it doesn't prevent unintended pregnancy. It 
doesn't create jobs. It doesn't improve the economic situations of our 
hometowns. And that's what we should be debating for hours and hours 
tonight.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment to 
remove taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood. In my State of 
Colorado, the voters passed a State constitutional amendment by 
initiative about 30 years ago. It said no taxpayer dollars will go to 
abortion, whether directly or indirectly. We decided in Colorado that 
because money is fungible, giving taxpayer dollars to an organization 
that provides abortion, even if they say it doesn't go directly to 
abortion, does indeed ultimately fund it. This is because that taxpayer 
money frees up that organization's resources to be moved around on its 
books. Money is fungible.
  Taxpayer dollars enable Planned Parenthood to perform abortions, and 
the sentiment in Colorado is the same as in the rest of America: 
Americans don't want to use taxpayer dollars for abortions. Until the 
day comes that Planned Parenthood stops performing abortions, it should 
not get another penny of taxpayer money.
  I urge my colleagues to support the Pence amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I now yield to the distinguished gentleman from New 
Jersey.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank my friend for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, it's time Americans, especially policymakers, health 
officials, the media, and law enforcement, took a second and critical 
look at Planned Parenthood. Not only does Planned Parenthood vigorously 
lobby and litigate against parental notification and parental consent 
laws, thus enabling secret abortions for very, very young girls to be 
procured in their clinics, but now we've learned from recent undercover 
taped investigations at several of its clinics that Planned Parenthood 
employees were found to be more than eager to assist people posing as 
sex traffickers to procure abortions for underaged girls.
  As a prime sponsor of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, 
I found it appalling to watch Planned Parenthood personnel again and 
again and again offer to provide and facilitate abortions for 
hypothetical sex trafficking victims as young as 13. In light of a 
recent comprehensive study suggesting that 100,000 American girls, 
mostly runaways, are forced into prostitution each year, average age 
13, the videotapes of Live Action, the NGO headed by a courageous young 
woman, Lila Rose, that did the undercover work, is an engraved 
invitation for serious investigation by the Attorney General of the 
United States and law enforcement everywhere. It further begs the 
question: Why are taxpayers giving hundreds of millions of dollars each 
and every year to Planned Parenthood?
  Despite the best and slickest market branding money can buy, the 
stubborn fact remains that Planned Parenthood clinics are among the 
most dangerous places on Earth for a child. Planned Parenthood's own 
personnel are now taking a second look--many of them--and, thanks to 
ultrasound, are clearly seeing what is being done to millions of 
children in the womb, like the 332,278 babies exterminated in Planned 
Parenthood's abortion clinics in 2009.
  One of those abortion providers who took a second look and walked 
away is Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic 
director. In her book ``Unplanned,'' Abby Johnson exposes the duplicity 
and cruelty of what really goes on behind closed doors at a Planned 
Parenthood clinic. In it she writes how she witnessed and assisted in 
an abortion of a 13-week-old baby by holding the ultrasound probe, and 
as she pointed out in the book, it was the first ultrasound-guided 
abortion at that facility.
  She writes in the book: ``The details startled me. At 13 weeks you 
could clearly see the profile of the head, both arms, legs, and even 
tiny fingers and toes. With my eyes glued to the image of this 
perfectly formed baby, I watched as a new image emerged on the video 
screen. The cannula, a straw-shaped instrument attached to the end of 
the suction tube, had been inserted into the uterus and was nearing the 
baby's side. It looked like an invader on the screen: out of place, 
wrong. It just looked wrong.''
  She goes on to write: ``My heart sped up; time slowed. I didn't want 
to look, but I didn't want to stop looking either. At first, the baby 
didn't seem aware of the cannula. It gently probed the baby's side, and 
for a quick second I felt relief. But I couldn't shake an inner 
disquiet that was quickly mounting to horror as I watched the screen.'' 
Remember, this is an abortion clinic director saying this.
  ``The next movement was a sudden jerk of a tiny foot of the baby as 
he started kicking, as if trying to move away from the probing 
invader.''
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Colorado's time has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last 
word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. ``As the cannula pressed in, the baby began 
struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that the fetus 
could feel the cannula, and it did not like the feeling. And then the 
doctor's voice broke through, startling me: `Beam me up, Scotty,' the 
abortionist said lightheartedly to the nurse. He was telling her to 
turn on the suction, in an abortion the suction isn't turned on until 
the doctor feels he has the cannula in exactly the right place.''
  This abortion clinic director went on to write: ``I had a sudden urge 
to yell, Stop; to shake the woman and say, Look at what's happening to 
your baby. Wake up; hurry. Stop them. But even as I was thinking those 
words, I thought of my own hand and saw my own hand holding the probe. 
I was one of them performing this act'' of abortion.

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  ``My eyes shot back to the screen. The cannula was already being 
rotated by the doctor and now I could see the tiny body violently 
twisting with it. For the briefest moment it looked as if the baby was 
being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then the little 
body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. 
The last thing I saw was the tiny perfectly formed backbone sucked into 
the tube. And then everything was gone. The image of that tiny dead 
baby mangled and sucked away kept replaying in my mind. What was in 
this woman's womb just a moment ago was alive. It wasn't tissue. It 
wasn't cells. This was a human baby, fighting for life. A battle was 
lost in the blink of an eye.
  ``What I have told people for years''--8 years as a clinic director 
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Parenthood clinic--``what I have told people for years,'' Abby Johnson 
continues, ``What I believed and taught and defended is a lie.''
  I ask Members to read this book, ``Unplanned,'' and realize the 
scandal of the killing of these unborn children and calling it choice.
  Mr. Chairman, there is nothing whatsoever benign or caring or 
generous or just or compassionate or nurturing about abortion. Earlier 
one of our colleagues called abortion healthy for the child. Abortion 
dismembers children piece by piece. Planned Parenthood's own fact sheet 
talks about D&E abortions done during the second trimester period. Have 
you ever seen what a D&E is? The doctor goes in with forceps and this 
device and literally hacks that baby to death. Planned Parenthood 
itself says it takes 10 to 20 minutes to literally dismember that 
child.
  Then there's the shots in the heart. There's a doctor right here in 
this area, that on perfectly healthy babies gives them cardiac sticks 
with either feticide poison or a burst of air which kills the unborn 
child.
  So it is not healthy for children and we know for a fact it is not 
healthy for women, either.
  Mr. Chairman, the Pence amendment simply seeks to end U.S. taxpayer 
complicity with this massive violence against children. Who we back, 
who we subsidize does matter. Not just what but who.
  Planned Parenthood does more than 300,000 abortions each and every 
year. They are the largest provider; about a fourth of all the 
abortions in the United States. It is child abuse. It is time to take a 
second look at Child Abuse, Incorporated.
  Support the Pence amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. SPEIER. I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Chairman, I had really planned to speak about 
something else, but the gentleman from New Jersey has just put my 
stomach in knots, because I'm one of those women he spoke about just 
now.
  I had a procedure at 17 weeks, pregnant with a child that had moved 
from the vagina into the cervix, and that procedure that you just 
talked about was a procedure that I endured. I lost the baby. But for 
you to stand on this floor and to suggest as you have that somehow this 
is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done 
without any thought is preposterous. To think that we are here tonight 
debating this issue, when the American people if they are listening are 
scratching their heads and wondering: What does this have to do with me 
getting a job? What does this have to do with reducing the deficit? And 
the answer is: Nothing at all.
  There is a vendetta against Planned Parenthood and it was played out 
in this room tonight. Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. 
Planned Parenthood has a right to provide services for family planning. 
Planned Parenthood has a right to offer abortions. The last time I 
checked, abortions were legal in this country.
  Now, you may not like Planned Parenthood. So be it. There are many on 
our side of the aisle that don't like Halliburton, and Halliburton is 
responsible for extortion, for bribery, for 10 cases of misconduct in 
the Federal database for a $7 billion sole source contract. But do you 
see us over here filing amendments to wipe out funding for Halliburton? 
No. Because, frankly, that would be irresponsible.
  I would suggest to you that it would serve us all very well if we 
moved on with this process and started focusing on creating jobs for 
the Americans who desperately want them.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Chairman, Planned Parenthood receives a third of its 
$1.1 billion budget from taxpayer dollars. The opposition to this 
amendment continues to say that this is not about Federal funding of 
abortion, which the Hyde amendment prohibits. We all know, however, 
that money is fungible. Taxpayer dollars are going to keep the lights 
on and the doors open and to pay for things which frees up money for 
abortions. Recently, Planned Parenthood has been caught red-handed in 
several different clinics, including one in my hometown of Richmond, 
aiding and abetting sex trafficking and prostitution of minors.
  Now the other side continues to say that Planned Parenthood has a 
right to operate. They don't have a right to do that. You cannot argue 
that an organization that engages in patterns of conduct such as those 
revealed in the videos seen in clinics such as that in my hometown, you 
cannot argue that an organization like that cares about the rights of 
women and girls it purports to serve.
  So, Mr. Chairman, I ask you: Why on Earth are we giving $363 million 
in taxpayer funds every year to Planned Parenthood? It is time to say 
no more. The time has come to respect the wishes of a vast majority of 
Americans who adamantly oppose giving taxpayer dollars for abortion. 
That is why I support this amendment, Mr. Chairman, and that is why I 
urge my colleagues to do the same.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Chairman, I'm new to this body but I was just 
elected to the Congress of the United States and what I heard during 
the course of my campaign is the urgency to get people back to work, to 
strengthen the middle class, to create jobs and to deal with the 
deficit. We've just spent the last 3 hours under the cloak of deficit 
reduction. My friends on the other side of the aisle have pushed this 
very extreme amendment, which is targeting women's health care and 
women's health care providers. This ideological attack comes at the 
expense of our Nation's women. It's an attack on health centers and 
will put the lives of millions of women at risk--millions of women who 
seek and receive health care at Planned Parenthood centers all around 
this country.
  Every year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses carry out nearly 1 
million lifesaving screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast 
exams. Its health centers provide contraception to nearly 2.5 million 
patients, and nearly 4 million patients are treated for sexually 
transmitted infections, including HIV.

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  Planned Parenthood provides preventative health care, and that 
represents 90 percent of its work. We already have a Federal 
prohibition of using Federal funds for abortion. Not a single penny 
intended or targeted by this amendment is used to terminate a 
pregnancy.
  What we should be talking about is getting the American people back 
to work: creating jobs, responsibly dealing with our deficit, and doing 
everything we can to strengthen the middle class. That's what we were 
sent here to do. That's what we should be doing.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment so that we can get back 
to the important business of putting Americans back to work.
  I yield to the gentlewoman from California.
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I'll bet the American people 
are really surprised tonight because we are debating a continuing 
resolution when they are facing tremendous challenges. We should be 
thinking about them and about the challenges they face. We should be 
talking, as my colleague has said, about how to save money and about 
how to create jobs. Instead, we are debating an amendment that will do 
neither. It will undermine women's health.
  This amendment denies women access to reproductive care, and it 
attacks the health providers that they rely on in their communities. 
These are health providers that are serving the underserved, and we are 
spending the evening attacking them.
  Planned Parenthood plays a critical role in our Nation's health care 
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over 3 million Americans every year. More than 90 percent of the care 
they provide is preventative.
  ``Preventative.'' What does that mean? We have many physicians here. 
What does that mean, ``preventative care''? ``Preventative care'' means 
that men and women do not have to go through more costly procedures and 
even that their lives can be saved.
  One in five American women has been to a Planned Parenthood health 
center for services like breast cancer screenings and cervical cancer 
screenings. We talked about all of that this evening.
  I cannot let San Diego families lose these valuable services. I will 
not let that happen, because I know that, when women have better access 
to these services, it leads to healthier outcomes for both the women 
and their children. But this amendment proposes to cut these services 
under the guise somehow of being fiscally responsible. That's not true. 
What I know about my State of California is that title X-supported 
centers saved $581,890,000 in public funds in 2008 alone.
  So let's talk about saving money. Let's talk about creating jobs. 
Let's not talk about constricting women's access to health care. Vote 
``no'' on the Pence amendment.
  Mr. CICILLINE. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Tennessee is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. This has been a good debate this evening. Mr. 
Chairman, I want to thank you for the time you have allowed this body 
to stand and have this debate. There has been a lot said. A couple of 
things, I think, do need to be corrected.
  Mr. Chair, we are thinking about the American taxpayer, and we are 
thinking about our responsibility to the taxpayer. This is not a debate 
about a vendetta; this is not a debate about Planned Parenthood; this 
is not a debate about something that is extreme. What this is tonight 
is a debate about our stewardship and our responsibility to the 
American people.
  Our discussion tonight--and I thank Mr. Pence for his leadership on 
this--is how we fund this government in a responsible manner and how we 
get this government back on track. The taxpayers are weighing in. 
They're reminding us that we, the Members of the House, are the keepers 
of the purse of this great Nation, and that it is important that we 
have these discussions. They want us to do it respectfully; they want 
us to do it responsibly; and they want us to make wise decisions.
  Quite frankly, Mr. Chairman, to give $363 million in taxpayer funds 
to an organization that has not conducted itself in a manner that 
suggests it deserves those funds is not respectful of the taxpayer.
  I want to go back to what Mr. Pence said at the beginning of the 
debate, that this is a debate about who pays. No one is saying that 
Planned Parenthood has to stop operating or has to stop being an 
advocate for abortion. What we are saying is that the American taxpayer 
should not have to foot the bill, especially for an organization that 
is facing criminal charges, that has admitted wrongdoing, and that is 
accused of endangering the safety of Americans. The American taxpayers 
should not have to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on this.
  I encourage my colleagues to stand for appropriate stewardship of the 
taxpayer dollars and to support and vote ``yes'' on the Pence 
amendment.
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. I had not intended to get into this particular debate.
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Reserving the right to object, we had an 
agreement. I thought that this would end the debate, and I would hope 
that that agreement could be agreed to.
  Mr. GARAMENDI. I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. Chair, I rise today to express my 
opposition to the Pence amendment and efforts to eliminate the Title X 
family planning program.
  Title X funding has connected millions of American women with 
essential health care since it was created forty years ago.
  Given that federal funds, including those provided through Title X 
funding, are already banned from being used for abortion service, the 
real impact of this proposal is that over 5 million Americans will lose 
access to health care services--including important preventive care, 
such as cancer screenings, annual exams, and contraception.
  This is a time when we should be focused on creating jobs, helping 
middle-class families, and encouraging innovation, not restricting 
access to health care for millions of Americans.
  Thank you Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose these efforts to 
eliminate Title X funding.
  Mr. LANDRY. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of the Pence amendment 
to prevent funds going to Planned Parenthood.
  I've heard from many of my colleagues that this amendment defunds 
many necessary women's health services.
  Let me be clear we must expand access to care for women in this 
country; however, abortion is not health care.
  The Planned Parenthood website states, ``Our primary goal is 
prevention--reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, especially 
the alarmingly high number of teenage pregnancies, in the United 
States.'' Abortion is not a method of preventing unintended 
pregnancies; abortion takes lives that have already began.
  We must not continue to support institutions that take unnecessary 
risks with the lives of young women and institutions that have been 
proven to be irresponsible with taxpayer dollars, have failed to report 
statutory rape, and have been caught aiding and abetting sex 
trafficking.
  The thousands of taxpayers who do not condone the slaughter of 
innocent lives, many of my constituents on the coast of Louisiana, know 
that they deserve better than to support corrupt organizations.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment without hesitation.
  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Chair, I rise today in opposition to the C.R. put 
forward by the Republican majority, and specifically to the defunding 
of Title X family planning programs, authorized under the Public Health 
Service Act. Started in 1970 by President Nixon, Title X funding 
provides for voluntary family planning projects, and is essential to 
protecting women's health services.
  Currently, Title X is our nation's only program dedicated to 
providing low-income Americans with family planning and reproductive 
health services. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are 
attempting to misconstrue Title X as federal subsidizing of abortion.
  However, Title X does not provide for abortion services. But it does 
cover essential health care for millions of families and women.
  From birth control to cancer screenings, approximately 5 million 
Americans rely upon Title X programs every year. In my hometown of 
Sacramento, I hear from women who tell me that if community health 
centers--like Planned Parenthood--close they would have nowhere else to 
go.
  I also hear from health care providers, who tell me that if the local 
Planned Parenthood closes, they would not be able to absorb their 
patients.
  For women who are unemployed or underemployed, often times they lack 
quality health coverage. That means that preventive health measures 
like cervical cancer screenings are financially unfeasible, so they 
turn to community health centers that receive Title X funding.
  It means that care for pregnant women, who should deserve the best 
possible pre-natal care for their babies feel like they cannot afford 
to go to the doctor as often as they need to. So they turn to community 
health centers that receive Title X funding.
  It means that young women, who are scared to talk to their parents 
about their sexual health, who want to seek out birth control and 
contraceptive measures, often before they become sexually active, but 
feel like they can't see their family doctor, turn to community health 
centers that receive Title X funding.
  For all of these women, community health centers are their sole 
source of medical care. We simply cannot afford to cut the lifesaving 
and preventive care services for those who would not otherwise have 
access to such care, especially in our current economic climate.
  Study after study shows that preventive care makes a healthier 
person. Preventive care creates healthier outcomes throughout one's 
life. And preventive care helps reduce health care costs, and will 
result in a healthier nation--both fiscally and physically.

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  Recently, I heard from one of my constituents, a woman named Cathy, 
who has been a health educator for the past 13 years. She started her 
teaching career at Planned Parenthood under Title X funded grants. 
Cathy said, ``Without knowledge and preventative services, we are bound 
to accrue more expenses in reactive verses pro-active measures . . .'' 
The House version of the FY11 Continuing Resolution would cut millions 
of American women off from birth control, cancer screenings, HIV tests, 
and other lifesaving care.
  This outrageous attack would have a devastating impact on the women, 
men, and teens in our community. For the thousands of women in 
Sacramento, who depend on the services that community health centers 
that Title X supports, I urge my colleagues to vote against this 
harmful amendment. The defending of these vital health programs 
contained in the C.R. will devastate women's health for generations to 
come. Increased costs, unintended pregnancies, and spikes in sexually 
transmitted diseases, would all be consequences of stripping this 
critical funding.
  Millions of young women, all around this country are looking to their 
leaders in Congress for leadership. It is my hope that this body acts 
in their interests, and the interests of their families. We must not 
cut off their only access to medical care.
  I once again urge my colleagues to vote against this irresponsible 
amendment. As a mother and a grandmother, I find it offensive, and 
shameful.
  Ms. HIRONO. Mr. Chair, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
amendment offered by Congressman Pence.
  Congressman Pence's amendment is a threat to women's health. It would 
prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds. As a 
result, Planned Parenthood would be disqualified from receiving Title X 
family-planning grants and other health related program funds.
  Much of the cuts in H.R. 1 target the most vulnerable among us--the 
poor, children, young adults, and now women. We are a diverse country 
with good people on all sides of an issue, including abortion. I know 
this amendment strikes at a favorite target of the anti-choice group. 
Sadly, in pushing their anti-choice agenda, tens of thousands of women 
in our country will be denied health care services that have nothing to 
do with abortion.
  The vast majority of Planned Parenthood's medical services are 
related to contraception, testing and treatment for sexually 
transmitted infections, cancer screening, and other services like 
pregnancy tests and infertility treatment. Abortion services comprise 
only 3 percent of the medical care Planned Parenthood provides. Federal 
law already prohibits Title X funds from being used for abortion 
services. It is important to point out that there are no known 
violations of this law. Despite any claims to the contrary, the Pence 
amendment is clearly a direct attack on women's preventive health care.
  Congressman Pence goes out of his way to name specific Planned 
Parenthood entities in his amendment that should not be funded, 
including Planned Parenthood Hawaii. I would like to share with the 
Congressman and this body my views on how Planned Parenthood Hawaii has 
helped women and their families.
  In Hawaii, there are three Planned Parenthood centers, one in 
Honolulu on the island of Oahu, one in Kahului on the island of Maui, 
and one in Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii. Together, those three 
centers:
  Served 7,835 patients.
  Provided 2,582 cervical cancer screenings that detected 321 abnormal 
results that required further diagnosis and treatment.
  Provided 2,705 breast exams.
  Conducted 3,346 tests for chlamydia--the leading cause of preventable 
infertility--that resulted in 172 positive results and follow-up 
treatment.
  By eliminating funding for the Title X Family Planning Program, the 
Planned Parenthood Clinic in Kailua-Kona may have to close its doors. 
That center is one of the only dedicated sexual and reproductive health 
clinics on the island. The centers on Maui and Oahu would be forced to 
reduce their clinic hours.
  The Pence amendment eliminates a safety net program that provides 
family planning services and lifesaving preventive care to 3 million 
Americans every year. I urge my colleagues to join me in opposition to 
this amendment.
  Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much).
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the Pence 
Amendment.
  Rep. Pence's amendment would prohibit Planned Parenthood from 
receiving any federal funds, including Medicaid reimbursement for 
family planning services, funding for HIV testing and counseling, 
funding for programs to prevent infertility, breast and cervical cancer 
screening funds, and funding to provide evidenced-based sex education, 
including information about abstinence. This amendment would have a 
devastating impact on communities like Las Vegas.
  In my district, Planned Parenthood's Flamingo Health Center is an 
essential community provider and one of only three Title X facilities 
in Clark County. In FY 2010, 27 percent of their clients were at or 
below 100 percent of Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and an additional 39 
percent were between 100 percent and 250 percent of FPL. Planned 
Parenthood provides access for many low-income women to basic and 
preventive healthcare, often serving as a primary care provider. In 
FY2010, Planned Parenthood provided basic healthcare services to more 
than 18,000 Nevadans.
  Rep. Pence's amendment will result in 1.4 million Medicaid patients--
predominately women--losing access to their health care provider. This 
attack on Medicaid patients' access to their local provider occurs at 
the same time that the Medicaid program desperately needs more doctors 
and nurses to participate in the program. Existing access issues will 
only become exacerbated as a result of the Medicaid expansion to 133 
percent of the Federal Poverty Level under the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  Federal law already requires health care providers to demonstrate 
that federal funds are not used for abortion care, so this amendment is 
a clear attempt to cut funding for cancer screenings and contraception 
for low-income women at Planned Parenthood health centers. Rep. Pence's 
amendment has one goal--to undermine women's access to basic, 
preventive healthcare and the women's health providers they rely on in 
their communities. I oppose this amendment and efforts to deprive women 
access to essential healthcare services.
  Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chair, today I rise to oppose the reckless 
Republican proposal to eliminate funding for the Title X Family 
Planning Program. This cut is a legislative assault on women's health 
and a failure of House Republicans to strengthen American families. 
Instead of focusing on issues Americans are most concerned about, like 
creating jobs, House Republicans have decided to target women's health 
programs and women's health providers under the guise of deficit 
reduction.
  Since 1970, Title X Family Planning Program has been a critical 
component of our nation's health care infrastructure and an essential 
vehicle in preventing unintended pregnancies and providing basic 
primary and preventive health care, including annual exams lifesaving 
screenings for illnesses like breast cancer, cervical cancer and HIV. 
If these cuts are allowed to become law, 5 million Americans will lose 
these services and women's access to health care will be severely 
restricted.
  House Republicans are using this legislation to mislead the American 
people by suggesting that federal funds are being used to pay for 
abortions. This is flatly untrue, since federal law has already banned 
Title X funds from being used for abortion services. Moreover, in 2008 
Title X supported services prevented 973,000 unintended pregnancies 
which resulted in thousands of fewer abortions. However, if Title X 
Family Planning Programs are eliminated more women will experience 
unintended pregnancies and face potentially life-threatening cancer and 
other diseases that could have been prevented.
  Preventing women's health centers from receiving this critical 
funding stream is not the answer and the majority of Americans do not 
support this proposal. According to a January 2011 CBS/New York Times 
survey found that by a margin of 67 percent to 27 percent, Americans 
oppose cuts for health care and education as a means of reducing the 
deficit. Instead, the American people want Congress to work together to 
address their top priority, which is creating jobs and strengthening 
middle class families, not imposing new restrictions to legal health 
services and screenings and eliminating critical programs. Eliminating 
Title X funding does not create jobs or help our economy. In fact, 
family planning programs like Title X save money because every $1 spent 
on family planning results in a $4 savings to Medicaid. House 
Republicans proposal to eliminate Title X Family Planning goes too far 
and is bad policy, bad politics, and is flat out immoral. I ask that my 
colleagues join me in opposing cuts to Title X Family Planning Program.
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chair, I rise today to oppose the amendment offered by 
my colleague from Indiana, Mr. Pence to H.R. 1, the Full-Year 
Continuing Appropriations Act.
  Mr. Pence's amendment would deny any federal funding to Planned 
Parenthood health facilities throughout the country. As a supporter of 
Planned Parenthood and the services that it offers to my constituents 
in my central New Jersey district, I firmly oppose this purely 
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  This should not be a pro-life or pro-choice debate about one of the 
many services that Planned Parenthood provides. In fact, under current 
law no federal funds can be used for abortion services. Less than three 
percent of the services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortion 
related. The Pence amendment is in fact a fundamental attack on our 
nation's oldest and most respected reproductive healthcare provider, 
the over 5 million men and women that visit Planned Parenthood 
annually, and the one in five American women who will visit a Planned 
Parenthood center in their lifetime.
  Disqualifying Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds would 
disproportionately affect health-care services that prevent unintended 
pregnancy and reduce the need for abortion. The vast majority of 
Planned Parenthood's medical services are related to contraception, 
testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections; cancer 
screening, and other services like pregnancy tests and infertility 
treatment. Despite any claims to the contrary, the Pence amendment is 
clearly a direct attack on prevention services, and would increase the 
number of unwanted pregnancies.
  More than 90 percent of the care that Planned Parenthood health 
centers provide every day is primary and preventive, including wellness 
exams, cancer screenings, immunizations, contraception and STD testing 
and treatment. For many women, the only doctor or nurse they see is one 
they visit at a women's health center. In fact, more than 6 in 10 
patients who receive care at a women's health center like Planned 
Parenthood consider it their primary source of health care.
  The 28 Planned Parenthood health centers in New Jersey serve over 
90,000 patients per year for a wide range of primary and reproductive 
health services. In 2009 alone, these centers performed almost 45 
thousand cervical screening tests that detected over 2 thousand 
abnormal results and 27 thousand breast exams that detected over 800 
abnormal results. Taking away funds from Planned Parenthood would deny 
women life saving medical testing, increase unwanted pregnancies, and 
deny primary care services to millions of women throughout the country.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose the Pence amendment.
  Ms. RICHARDSON. Mr. Chair, I move to strike the last word.
  I rise today in strong opposition to the Pence Amendment to the 
Republican Continuing Resolution which would eliminate all federal 
funding to Planned Parenthood facilities across the country.
  Planned Parenthood has been a vital healthcare provider for low and 
moderate income women since its formation in 1916. It is one of the 
largest providers of basic healthcare in the country offering a variety 
of services including cancer screenings, HIV/AIDS testing, blood 
pressure examinations and general reproductive care for more than 3 
million patients annually.
  If passed, this amendment would have a detrimental impact on women's 
access to basic healthcare services and would severely limit a woman's 
right to control her own reproductive health.
  Over 90% of the services Planned Parenthood administers are 
preventative care services that keep low and moderate income women 
healthy. Planned Parenthood also gives women access to contraception 
and important family planning services.
  6 in 10 women who receive healthcare from women's health centers such 
as Planned Parenthood consider these facilities to be their primary 
source of basic, preventative care. Taking away these options for 
millions of women is not acceptable.
  Research has shown that every dollar invested in family planning 
programs saves American taxpayers $4. Clearly, the goal of this 
amendment is not to reduce the deficit but to restrict women's access 
to basic healthcare services.
  In the long-term, the preventative care services that Planned 
Parenthood offers will certainly save millions of dollars for the 
American taxpayer who would otherwise be forced to foot the medical 
bills of patients who had been denied access to preventative care 
services as a result of this amendment.
  The Republicans claim that this Continuing Resolution is about 
cutting the deficit. However, this amendment is inconsistent with that 
objective. Instead of focusing on creating jobs, an issue that is at 
the center of the American people's mind, the Republicans are focusing 
on eliminating funding to health centers that actually save the 
American taxpayers money.
  In these tough economic times, women who rely on health centers such 
as Planned Parenthood for basic care may not have any other options for 
seeking treatment if funding for these facilities were to disappear.
  This amendment does not reduce the deficit, it does not create jobs 
and it severely hinders women's right to affordable, basic healthcare.
  Thank you.
  Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. Chair, I rise today to object to the amendment 
submitted by Mr. Pence, which would deny Planned Parenthood health 
centers federal funding for family planning services, HIV testing and 
counseling, programs to prevent infertility, and breast and cervical 
cancer screenings.
  The Pence amendment would cut off millions of American women from 
their only source of primary care. One in five American women has 
accessed health care at a Planned Parenthood health center. In 2010, 
Planned Parenthood of New Mexico provided 1,995 Pap smear tests and 281 
breast exams. Services such as these save lives.
  Instead of focusing on the issues Americans are most concerned about, 
House Republicans are targeting women's health care programs and 
women's health providers under the guise of deficit reduction. These 
proposals do nothing to improve the economy, they will result in job 
losses, and they will cut off millions of American women from their 
only source of primary and preventive care. At a time when more and 
more women and families are facing difficulties in accessing health 
care due to increasing costs and a struggling economy, members of 
Congress should be doing everything they can to ensure that women have 
access to the health care they need and the trusted providers in their 
community.
  I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana will 
be postponed.
  Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do 
now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Westmoreland) having assumed the chair, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Acting 
Chair of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, 
reported that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill 
(H.R. 1) making appropriations for the Department of Defense and the 
other departments and agencies of the Government for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes, had come to no 
resolution thereon.

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