Providing for Consideration of Establishing a Select Investigative Panel of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. I thank the gentlewoman.
Mr. Speaker, I was in my office watching the debate, and I thought, well, if I really thought I was innocent, if I really thought there was nothing that really went with what the other side is claiming, if I really thought I needed to wipe the slate clean, if I really thought that sunlight is truly the best antiseptic.
Forget about the organization. Let's talk about the act. This is one of the most repulsive things you can watch. It turns your stomach to see our unborn--our born--listen, little boys and little girls being dissected and being sold. It is a criminal activity.
So my question comes down to--and if you read ``Rules for Radicals,'' the best way to counteract a charge against you is to go after those who are attacking you and make them the bad person.
I don't understand. In America's House, when we want to have a debate, when we want everybody in America to look and say that this was fair, we are talking about an investigation that, if we are false, if the claims are false, it would wipe the slate clean.
Most people who think they have been wrongly accused of something say, ``Bring the facts out. Let everybody see them. Let's have the conversation. Let's have the debate. Let's really determine if this is really going on.'' Only someone who is afraid it may go against them would say, ``No. No. No. You can't do this.''
I want to tell you, as far as women are concerned and a war on women, I am the father of four children, three boys and one girl. But I have ten grandchildren, six girls and four boys. There is not one of them that, when it comes to how much I love them, it is gender-selective. I love them all in the same way.
In a country that has always stood for human rights, in a country that has always stood for others, for the most vulnerable--and I will not disguise it and say it is not what I am. I am from conception to natural death. I am in favor of life. I will always be in favor of life.
But to have this debate today and to say that you can't possibly do this because it is driven, it is a Republican agenda, because it is a war on women, if anything, this is a war for women.
We have got to protect these people. If there is anything that is a preemptive strike in the war on women, it is gender-selective abortion.
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Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman.
Mr. Speaker, I would just ask all Members, not as Republicans and not as Democrats, but as members of the human race, and for a House that just abhors what is going on around the world and saying that this is horrible what is going on and we won't ever let this happen in our country, why would we be having this debate today?
If you really want the slate to be clear, if you really want the world to see that there is nothing going on here, then let's have an open investigation so, at the end of the day--I don't care what organizations--they can walk away and say, ``See, we proved that we aren't who they say we are.''
Mr. Speaker, this is just so simple. Why would you argue against it? It actually works to their advantage if it is not true. If it is true, then why in the world would we use hard-earned American taxpayer money to fund illegal and criminal activity? That is just not who we are as Americans.
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