[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 34]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    ATTACKS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE AND TAKING AWAY HEALTH INSURANCE

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, well, it may be a new year, but the 
Republicans are celebrating with the same old extreme attacks on 
women's health care and trying to take away health insurance from 
hardworking American families.
  It is a shame that the House Republican leadership has chosen to 
spend the first week of 2016 attacking Planned Parenthood and 
dismantling those important benefits to 22 million Americans.
  The bill that we will vote on today will defund Planned Parenthood 
and the important family planning services that they provide, including 
lifesaving cancer screenings for millions of women across this country. 
This bill would dismantle affordable health care for millions of more 
workers, for families, for students.
  Instead of wasting time on a radical bill which, quite frankly, some 
on the other side have acknowledged will not become law, we ought to be 
focusing on the questions that the American people sent us here to work 
on--on getting our economy moving, putting Americans back to work, and 
rebuilding our infrastructure. That is the challenge that we face, and 
we ought not politicize women's health care in order to pander to the 
extreme voices on the right.

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