[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6176-6180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 CORRECTING THE ENROLLMENT OF H.R. 1473

  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 218, I call 
up the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 36) directing the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of 
H.R. 1473, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the concurrent resolution.
  The text of the concurrent resolution is as follows:

                            H. Con. Res. 36

       Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
     concurring), That, in the enrollment of the bill (H.R. 1473) 
     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, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall 
     make the following correction: At the end of title VIII of 
     division B, insert the following new section:
       ``Sec. 1864.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be made available for any purpose to Planned Parenthood 
     Federation of America, Inc. or any affiliate of Planned 
     Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 218, the 
gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Nunnelee) and the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Mississippi.


                             General Leave

  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and include extraneous material on House Concurrent Resolution 36.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Mississippi?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  This resolution would deny funding to Planned Parenthood. It's 
morally wrong to have taxpayer dollars from my constituents in 
Mississippi, or from any other State, go towards organizations that 
provide abortions. Since 1977 Planned Parenthood has assisted in 
aborting the lives of over 5 million children.
  This resolution before the House is simple and straightforward.
  Now, there will be those who frame the resolution as a debate over 
denying health care benefits for women. This isn't the case. In fact, 
in this resolution not one dime of women's health or family health 
planning funding is reduced. It simply says those dollars cannot go to 
Planned Parenthood.
  This is an organization that has protected those who prey on our 
children and has protected those who rape our granddaughters. Planned 
Parenthood holds itself to be above the law by ignoring mandatory 
reporting requirements, by skirting parental consent, by aiding and 
abetting child trafficking. They put quick and secret abortions ahead 
of the welfare of victimized young girls. And it has to stop.
  Those who oppose this resolution are enabling them.
  I refuse to reach into the pockets of our taxpayers to fund this sort 
of activity. I have always viewed these young women as much victims as 
the unborn child, and I want to go after those corrupt and immoral 
businesses that exploit them.
  We did a pretty good job of running them out of the State of 
Mississippi. In fact, in November Mississippi will have on its ballot 
an initiative that defines personhood, and over 106,000 Mississippians 
put their signatures on the initiative to get this on the ballot. And 
Planned Parenthood is a political organization and is funding the 
opposition to this ballot.
  Bottom line: We need to deny funding to those agencies that support 
abortions, and this resolution will do that.
  I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield myself 2 minutes.
  I rise in opposition to this concurrent resolution. It has nothing to 
do with the budget and everything to do with ideology.
  This is an attempt to turn back the clock on women's health and basic 
rights. The majority wants to impose their traditional view of a 
woman's role and take us back to a day when family planning was not 
available. With this resolution, the majority aims to exclude one 
specific health care provider, Planned Parenthood, from all Federal 
resources. This will needlessly put lives in danger.
  Planned Parenthood carries out millions of lifesaving preventative 
and primary care services every year. They deliver immunizations, 
routine gynecological exams, nearly 1 million screenings for cervical 
cancer, 830,000 breast exams, and nearly 4 million tests and treatments 
for sexually transmitted infections like HIV every single year. If this 
resolution passes, all of these services would be lost.
  Seventy-five percent of their more than 3 million patients live at or 
below 150 percent of the poverty level, make less than $33,000 for a 
family of four. One of every five women in America has gone to Planned 
Parenthood for access to health care. Sixty percent of these women 
consider Planned Parenthood their main source of care. And, in fact, 
even the number of men Planned Parenthood serves has doubled over the 
past decade. All of these women and men would lose access to these 
services if this should pass.

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  This resolution guts a primary source of care for millions of 
American families. We all know this has nothing to do with Federal 
funding of abortion. Federal funds are already banned from going 
towards abortion services under the Hyde amendment.
  We should not be playing political games with women's lives. I urge 
my colleagues to oppose this dangerous resolution and to stand for 
women's health and, above all, to trust women to make the right 
decisions.
  Mr. DICKS. Will the gentlelady yield?
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. I rise in very strong support of the gentlelady's position 
on Planned Parenthood and urge a ``no'' vote on this current 
resolution.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from 
Tennessee, the principal sponsor of the bill, Mrs. Black.
  Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, as a nurse for over 40 years, I have spent 
my entire career protecting life. And those who need the greatest 
protection are those who have the least voice, that is, children born 
and unborn.

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  Now as a Member of Congress, I will continue to fight for the rights 
of the unborn through this legislation we have here today. And today, I 
am here as a sponsor of this resolution to ensure that no Federal funds 
are used for either the promotion or the performance of abortions.
  There are people around who would lead you to believe that this bill 
is about Republicans wanting to deny women access to preventative care, 
but they are using scare tactics and their lies are distracting you 
from the real facts. As a matter of fact, Title X funds which fund 
these types of preventative care for women will continue to fund those 
organizations and agencies that provide preventative care but do not 
promote or provide abortion services. What my colleagues and I are here 
doing today is standing up and saying we do not support Federal funding 
of any organization--any organization--that promotes or performs 
abortions.
  There is an urgent need to stop taxpayer dollars from funding 
abortions. And the Republican majority in the House has already made 
clear our commitment to ending the funding for Planned Parenthood, 
which is, by the way, America's largest abortion provider. The Senate 
has ducked this legislation and this important discussion for this 
legislation for too long. It's time that the Senators debate this in 
the open, as we have here in the House in H.R. 1, and take a vote to 
end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the Democratic leader, 
the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi).
  Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentlelady for yielding and for her forceful 
leadership in promoting women's health.
  Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, when I was in high school--a long time 
ago--I participated in an extemporaneous debate contest. One of the 
contestants there, a friend of mine, drew from the bowl a slip that 
said, ``Do women think?'' ``Do women think?'' Now, this was a long time 
ago, but even then we thought that was a startling question, ``Do women 
think?'' The young lady who drew it--she was really a girl in high 
school--spoke with great grace and strength about women and won the 
debate, which we hope to do today.
  I hadn't thought of that debate for a long time, but it came rushing 
down on me as I heard our Republican colleagues put forth their cuts on 
women's health, especially eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood. 
The arguments which the Republicans have put forth sound like the same 
question of a decade ago, do women think? It's an assault on the 
judgment of women. It bespeaks a lack of respect for women to determine 
the size and the timing of their families.
  It's clear that Republicans do not support family planning--it's hard 
to understand, but it's clear that they don't--and have used debate on 
this bill to spread misinformation about the critical work that Planned 
Parenthood does on behalf of America's women every day. So let us be 
clear, Planned Parenthood health centers currently provide preventive 
services to millions of women in need of health care, including the 
provision of contraception, cancer screening, breast exams, and HIV 
testing.
  Further, this debate is not about abortion. That is because Federal 
funding for abortion is already prohibited. That is the law of the 
land. This debate is about women's health.
  Every year, Planned Parenthood health centers provide the following 
for women's health: Contraception to nearly 2.5 million patients; 
nearly 1 million pap tests identifying about 93,000 women at risk for 
developing cervical cancer; 830,000 breast exams, helping alert 
patients to possible cancers. That is why cutting off Federal funding 
for Planned Parenthood would have a devastating impact on women's 
health across the country.
  Indeed, more than 90 percent of the health care provided by Planned 
Parenthood is preventive care. For a majority of the women who use 
Planned Parenthood health centers, the centers are the primary source 
of receiving health care services. Elimination of funding means that 
these women do not have health care of any kind.
  Today's legislation--which has no chance of passing the Senate and 
becoming law, thank God--is just part of the Republican agenda that is 
the most comprehensive and radical assault on women's health and 
reproductive freedom in our lifetime. And that's saying something.
  Further, I point out that today on the floor of this House, this is 
the 100th day of the Republicans having the majority, here we are again 
debating legislation that has nothing to do with the number one 
priority of the American people: creating jobs. Indeed, after 100 days, 
the Republicans have not created one job and have not offered a jobs 
agenda and are instead on the march against women's health and to end 
Medicare in order to give tax breaks to Big Oil and millionaires.
  Some Republicans say that we're here because we did not pass a bill 
last year. It was shocking to hear even some members of the 
Appropriations Committee--who should know better--on the Republican 
side say that. But indeed we did. It was held up by Republicans in the 
Senate. We passed it in the House without one Republican vote, the 
omnibus bill, but it was held up by the Republicans in the Senate. And 
in that bill we cut $41 billion from the President's budget.
  So today when I hear our colleagues say we are cutting $78 billion--
$37.5 today. The other $41 billion, which is the largest amount, was 
cut by the Democrats without one Republican vote at the end of last 
year.
  Today, in this latest partisan maneuver, Republicans are perpetrating 
an attack on the health of women across the country, and I rise in 
strong opposition to their efforts. We must all stand strong against 
that agenda against women's health. We must all continue to work to 
create a healthier America. And that is why I urge a ``yes'' to women's 
judgment, a ``yes'' to respect their decision on the size and timing of 
their families, and a ``no'' for this vote, which is an attack on 
women's health.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the other principal 
sponsor of this bill, the gentlelady from Alabama (Mrs. Roby).
  Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor today to stand on the House 
floor as one of the sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution 36.
  Since coming to Congress, I have come to the floor several times to 
talk about my stance on abortion and the need to defund Planned 
Parenthood, and I am pleased to be a part of the lead on this important 
issue today.
  Mr. Speaker, I am unapologetically pro-life and will continue to do 
what is necessary to protect the lives of the unborn. Every 2 minutes, 
a life is lost because of an abortion. That adds up to 3,300 lives a 
day or 1.2 million a year.
  I believe I have an obligation to do everything I can to fight for 
the unborn and to prevent taxpayer money from funding abortions. 
Therefore, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the piece of 
legislation in front of us

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today. It would prevent Federal funds in H.R. 1473 from going to 
Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides more abortions than 
any other organization in the United States.
  About one of every four U.S. abortions is performed at a Planned 
Parenthood location or one of their affiliates. Data shows that since 
1970, Planned Parenthood has performed at least 5.3 million abortions, 
and that includes over 332,000 abortions in 2009 alone. Planned 
Parenthood has 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.
  My colleagues opposed to this piece of legislation will claim that 
the money that Planned Parenthood has been receiving is not used for 
abortion. I disagree. Money is fungible. By taking away Federal funds 
from Planned Parenthood, they will have to spend more of their private 
money on basic services and overhead costs rather than diverting those 
funds toward abortions.
  From 2000 to 2009, Planned Parenthood saw an 80 percent increase in 
taxpayer funding that resulted in a 69 percent increase in the number 
of abortions and a 61 percent decrease in the number of adoption 
referrals.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on preventing Planned Parenthood 
access to Federal funds in fiscal year 2011.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
New York (Mrs. Lowey).

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  Mrs. LOWEY. I rise in strong opposition to the resolution. The right 
wing's failed radical attempt to block funding for Planned Parenthood 
has now devolved to procedural games instead of a renewed focus on 
creating jobs. Federal law prohibits Federal dollars for abortion, and 
family planning saves taxpayers nearly $4 for every $1 spent.
  If Republicans were serious about deficit reduction, they would 
increase these investments instead of demonizing those who provide 
affordable access to Pap tests, breast exams, routine gynecological 
exams, flu vaccinations, smoking cessation services, cholesterol 
screening, contraceptives, and all of the other services that Planned 
Parenthood provides.
  Vote ``no'' on this assault on women's health.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Pence).
  Mr. PENCE. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  I believe ending an innocent unborn human life is morally wrong. I 
also believe it's morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of 
millions of pro-life Americans and use them to subsidize the largest 
abortion provider in America. Today Congress will vote to do something 
about that.
  Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. As 
this chart shows, in 2009 Planned Parenthood made 977 adoption 
referrals, had 7,021 prenatal care counseling sessions, and performed 
332,278 abortions. During that time, Planned Parenthood received $363.2 
million in taxpayer money. Planned Parenthood received $1 million a day 
and performed about a thousand abortions a day.
  H. Con. Res. 36 will only put an end to taxpayer subsidy of Planned 
Parenthood. Despite the hyperbolic rhetoric of the left, this 
resolution will not cut one penny from Title X women's health services. 
It merely denies funds to the largest abortion provider in the land.
  I want to thank the leadership of Speaker Boehner. I want to urge my 
colleagues to stand with all of us, to stand for life, to stand for 
taxpayers. Let's end public funding of the largest abortion provider in 
America once and for all.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. 
DeGette).
  Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, I don't know how many times this Republican 
leadership is going to make the House take the same vote again and 
again to deny women the basic health care they need. But repeating 
these votes just exposes the extreme agenda that the American people 
didn't ask for and that they don't want.
  Continuing to debate defunding women's health care clinics like 
Planned Parenthood is not getting less offensive; it's getting more 
offensive every day. And the American public won't stand for this 
extreme agenda.
  Not one Federal dollar goes to fund abortions--not by Planned 
Parenthood, not by anybody.
  The last speaker was just plain wrong when he said this resolution 
would not reduce money for women's health. It would cut millions of 
dollars for women's health.
  Let me tell you about a young woman from my district in Denver, 
Colorado. She hasn't ever had health insurance, but she took 
responsibility for her own health care, and she had her first annual 
exam and Pap smear at Planned Parenthood when she was 18 years old. Now 
she's pregnant and she depends on Planned Parenthood for her prenatal 
care so she and her baby can be healthy. Planned Parenthood is the only 
health care provider that she's ever had.
  Vote ``no'' on this extreme resolution.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Thank you very much for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, in its slick TV ads and PR blitz, the multi-billion-
dollar-a-year abortion giant Planned Parenthood appears to be hiding 
something.
  Could it be that they're hiding the dismaying fact that just one 
organization--Planned Parenthood--performs over 25 percent of all 
abortions in America? No other chain of abortion mills even comes 
close.
  Or is it the fact that 97 percent of all of the so-called services 
rendered to a woman with child end in an abortion, or the fact that 
since 1977 Planned Parenthood has deliberately caused the brutal death 
of well over 5.4 million babies--a staggering loss of child life? And 
in 2009 alone, 332,278 babies were killed in Planned Parenthood 
clinics.
  There is no organization in America, Mr. Speaker, perhaps even on 
Earth, that stabs, dismembers, decapitates, or chemically poisons more 
unborn children to death than Planned Parenthood. And that's the 
reality of what abortion does to a child.
  For the innocent and perhaps inconvenient child in the womb, a 
Planned Parenthood clinic is a house of horrors, a place where abortion 
has brutally destroyed children and deceived and hurt their mothers.
  Vote for the resolution.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan).
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, this is about prevention. This is 
about women's health. And this is about making sure that we reduce the 
need for abortion in the United States of America.
  And how we got so illogical to think that if we could give poor and 
middle class women access to birth control, that somehow is going to 
increase the abortion rates in the United States is beyond me.
  We see our friends time and time again talk about respecting life, 
and I see in many instances on the other side of the aisle, that ends 
once the baby is actually born.
  Respecting life means early childhood health care. It means 
affordable health care for families. Those are life issues. Early 
childhood education, Head Start, Pell Grants. Those are about making 
sure that citizens in the United States of America can have life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  In this bill, if we pass and defund this organization, we will have 
more problems on our hands, more breast cancer, more cervical cancer. 
And it's going to be more expensive. And all of these folks on the 
other side that want to run government like a business and make good 
investments, you can't make better investments than preventative health 
care like this organization provides.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from California (Ms. 
Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the Republican 
war on women, and that is what this is.

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  Republicans have already moved to ban the District of Columbia from 
using its own money for abortions. Shameful. Now they want to go after 
America's most trusted provider of health care services for women. 
Shameful.
  In many underserved communities, Planned Parenthood is the principal 
source of basic primary health services for poor and low-income women. 
Last year, millions of women received breast and cervical cancer 
screenings, testing, treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV 
and AIDS, and family planning, and contraception, mind you, through 
Planned Parenthood.
  Planned Parenthood saves lives.
  This is not about abortions. Only 3 percent of the services they 
provide involve abortions, and the law already prohibits Federal 
funding for abortions, though this law really should be repealed. This 
does not reduce the deficit nor create jobs. Family planning programs 
actually save taxpayers $4 for every $1 we invest in them.
  This is really about pandering to the extreme right wing that wants 
to take us back to the days of back-alley abortions. They want to deny 
family planning and basic health care services for women.
  This is a war on women.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Aderholt).
  Mr. ADERHOLT. I rise today in strong support of the resolution.
  While I respect my colleagues who are against this resolution, let me 
say that I believe that Federal funds should be cut off from Planned 
Parenthood.
  As previously stated on the floor by my colleagues, the resolution 
does not reduce funding for women's health services. It simply ensures 
that funds are directed to other organizations. Not a dime of women's 
health or family planning funding is reduced by this resolution. We 
simply want to ensure that Federal funds are being used in a way that 
protects the will of our constituents, not to help subsidize Planned 
Parenthood.
  Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the Nation, 
providing over 300,000 abortions in 2009.

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  Over the years, Planned Parenthood has increased their abortion 
numbers every year, while adoption and prenatal care remains way too 
low.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this resolution.
  Ms. DeLAURO. If I might inquire, Mr. Speaker, how much time is left 
on both sides.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry). The gentlewoman from Connecticut 
has 3 minutes, and the gentleman from Mississippi has 1 minute 
remaining.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. 
Roybal-Allard).
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this 
concurrent resolution.
  Planned Parenthood is a safety net that helps Americans stay healthy 
by providing primary care services such as breast cancer screenings, 
immunizations, and annual exams. Women also receive preventive care 
that helps lower cancer deaths, heart attacks, and cases of undiagnosed 
and untreated STDs.
  As the largest provider of family planning, it helps women and men 
become parents when it makes the most sense for them. The attacks on 
Planned Parenthood are underhanded tactics using inaccurate statements 
and statistics. A perfect example is the recent claim that abortions 
make up 90 percent of their services. This gross misstatement has been 
refuted by hard numbers which show these services were less than 3 
percent of the care provided in 2009. At the expense of critical health 
care for millions of Americans, these attacks are another irresponsible 
diversion from the fact that Republicans have failed to take one action 
to create jobs.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this resolution.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlelady from 
Ohio (Mrs. Schmidt).
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, you know, times are tough, including in 
Congress. And we have to find wise ways to spend our taxpayer dollars. 
For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 
32 receive an abortion. Planned Parenthood does over 1,000 abortions a 
day, and they receive $1 million a day from taxpayers. The time has 
come to stop funding Planned Parenthood. We have better ways to spend 
our taxpayer dollars. Let's put it back to the Treasury and reduce the 
deficit.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California 
(Mrs. Capps).
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this mean-
spirited resolution, yet another attempt by the Republicans to play 
politics with women's health care, part of their broader priority to 
reopen the culture wars. But the lies that have been tossed around in 
this debate are an insult to the 3 million Americans who used Planned 
Parenthood services this year.
  Nearly two-thirds of those who visit a Planned Parenthood consider it 
to be their main source of health care, their mainstay, their lifeline. 
In my own district, Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and 
San Luis Obispo Counties serves over 31,000 patients a year. I must ask 
the supporters of this mean-spirited resolution, where should these 
31,000 people go? They have no answer. Just inaccurate talking points 
and a demonizing ``we know best'' attitude.
  Instead of taking away women's access to health care, let's turn to 
working on what they really need: a stronger economy and meaningful job 
opportunities. So please join me in voting ``no'' on this mean-spirited 
resolution.
  Ms. DeLAURO. I yield myself the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut is 
recognized for 1 minute.
  Ms. DeLAURO. My Republican colleagues were prepared to shut down the 
Federal Government over women's health. If you can imagine that. Turn 
this country into chaos because of women's health issues. Today they 
continue to treat women as second-class citizens. They would treat 
women with a lack of respect, denigrate them, and undervalue women in 
our society today. That is what this debate is all about.
  They would deny women basic health care. And because we in this House 
of Representatives have health care, they don't care much about what's 
happening to those whose primary care is at this facility, for cancer 
screenings. I am a survivor of ovarian cancer. I know what it means to 
be screened, to be diagnosed, and to be told I have a serious illness, 
and that I have the opportunity to get well. Trust the women of this 
Nation. Trust them. Vote against this misguided resolution.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, the House has before it today an important 
question, but it's not a new question. It's a question of old. This day 
I put before you the choice of life or death. Today we choose life.
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, budget resolutions are about 
funding the needs of our country. We should be talking fund initiatives 
to create jobs.
  Instead, we're wasting time on divisive social issues.
  Some want to make this a fight about abortion. But this is a fight 
for women's health. For ourselves, for our daughters, and for our 
granddaughters.
  This resolution won't save taxpayer dollars or create jobs.
  What it will do is undermine women's health.
  More than 90 percent of the care those health centers provide is 
primary and preventive.
  And one in five American women has been to a Planned Parenthood 
health center for services like breast cancer screening, cervical 
cancer screening, and well-women exams.
  Mr. Speaker, I will not let San Diego families lose these valuable 
health services.
  I listen to my constituents about how important Planned Parenthood's 
services have been in their lives.
  Just last week, I held a telephone town hall, and a woman waited on 
the line for over an hour to ask me about my support for Planned 
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  Anna started going to Planned Parenthood when she first moved to San 
Diego because as a young woman she was unemployed and had nowhere else 
to go for health care.
  Decades later, she is in her 60s and still uses them for breast and 
cervical cancer screenings.
  I also want to tell you about Jamie, a single working woman who was 
laid off 2 years ago during the recession and started using Planned 
Parenthood for her health care.
  Even now that she has a job, she can't afford health insurance and 
continues to use their services.
  Without Planned Parenthood, she would not have had a pap smear and 
would not know she has a high-risk type of HPV, which could lead to 
cervical cancer.
  In her words, ``Planned Parenthood has not only potentially saved my 
life but millions of others as well.''
  These are only two of the nearly 800,000 patients seen by California 
Planned Parenthoods every year.
  I am not willing to deny them access to lifesaving care.
  I'm shocked and outraged that the majority is willing to do so, 
especially when 65 percent of Americans favor continued support for 
Planned Parenthood.
  I will be voting against this resolution, and I hope you will all 
join me.
  Ms. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this 
resolution.
  Millions of Americans across the country rely on Planned Parenthood 
as their only source of medical care. More than 90 percent of the care 
that Planned Parenthood provides in our communities is primary and 
preventive services. Such care keeps our communities healthier, and 
keeps health care costs down.
  However, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are attempting 
to misrepresent federal funding for Planned Parenthood as federal 
subsidization of abortions. Federal law already prohibits federal 
dollars from funding abortions. And today's resolution would take funds 
from cancer screenings, birth control, HIV testing, and other life 
saving care.
  It would effectively cripple the largest provider of reproductive 
health services in our country and it would take funding away from 
health care that primarily serves low-income Americans. It would take 
away health care services from women in my hometown. Women like Kari.
  Kari shared with me that she did not have health insurance when she 
went to Planned Parenthood to receive a free cancer screening. The 
screening showed that Kari had cervical cancer. But Planned 
Parenthood--in addition to offering the free screening--continued to 
provide Kari free care through subsequent visits. Today, Kari is a 
cancer survivor.
  Without Planned Parenthood's services Kari's story could have had a 
very different ending. And while this Congress should be working to 
improve access to health care services to help millions of men and 
women just like Kari, this resolution does just the opposite. Today's 
resolution is an attack on women, on low-income Americans, on community 
health centers, and on primary care.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this harmful bill.
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, House Republicans have made their 
extreme agenda abundantly clear--undermine women's access to 
reproductive health care and attack the local women's health providers 
they rely on to provide cancer screenings, routine gynecological 
examinations, contraceptive services, immunizations, and testing and 
treatment for sexually-transmitted infections.
  One in five American women has received care from a Planned 
Parenthood health center at some point in her life, making it one of 
the largest women's health care providers in the country. Planned 
Parenthood clinics serve over 3 million Americans every year and plays 
a critical role in our Nation's health care system. The Republican 
budget would deny them any funding.
  Bonnie S. from Evanston, IL, wrote:
  ``I found myself without health care in my early twenties even though 
I was still working. I was in a committed, long-term relationship and 
needed birth control and a yearly pap smear. Planned Parenthood was my 
main healthcare provider for nearly ten years.''
  ``I have only had one sexual partner in my life. I have never had an 
abortion. Without Planned Parenthood, I would not have been able to 
afford birth control and a yearly pap smear, things that no woman 
should have to go without. I'm sure there are many women out there with 
a story like mine. Stopping funding for Planned Parenthood would be a 
horrible thing.''
  Lesley W. from Evanston, IL, wrote:
  ``I was shocked and horrified to learn that Congress has voted to 
defund Planned Parenthood. As an 18 year old college freshman, Planned 
Parenthood was the difference for me between getting reliable, high 
quality birth control and gynecological care, and leaving my 
reproductive health to chance. Now at age 49, married and a mother, I 
credit Planned Parenthood with giving me the tools for a healthy and 
responsible sex life. I never had an unplanned pregnancy. I never got 
an STD. When AIDS came around, I knew how to protect myself and my 
partners. Planned Parenthood may well have saved my life, as it has 
saved the lives of thousands of women (and men) over the years. To not 
fund it is not only cruel and unethical, it is remarkably short 
sighted. How many more unplanned pregnancies, abortions, and STDs will 
we now see? How many young women will avoid prenatal care because they 
are afraid of a gynecologist's office? How many will avoid screenings 
for cervical cancer?''
  ``Planned Parenthood was there when I needed it, and I want it to be 
there for my daughter and the next generation of young women. It plays 
a crucial role in our national healthcare, and must be funded.''
  Poll after poll has shown that Americans support the work of Planned 
Parenthood centers because investing in commonsense, proven, effective 
prevention and primary health care is smart health policy.
  Republicans need to stop attacking Planned Parenthood and they need 
to end their war on women's health.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 218, the concurrent resolution is 
considered read and the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the concurrent resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. NUNNELEE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this question will be postponed.

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