Providing for Consideration of Establishing a Select Investigative Panel of the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, since a series of deceptive and highly edited videos taken at Planned Parenthood facilities were released to the public, three separate congressional committees have leapt to conclusions, holding hearings and investigations along the way.

However, on the subcommittee on which I serve as ranking member and which has primary jurisdiction over this matter, we did extensive research. We found out that Planned Parenthood broke no laws according to an extensive memo prepared by the Democratic committee staff.

So now what are we going to do? We are going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars having another sham committee. That is a ridiculous waste of money.

I have a proposal for all of my colleagues. Let's spend our time talking on the things that our constituents want their hard-earned taxpayer money spent on: reauthorizing the highway bill, addressing the looming expiration of our debt ceiling, not to mention an overdue bill for funding the Federal Government. That is what they care about.

I just want to say once again, for the umpteenth time, for the Record, there is no public money spent on abortion. There is no Federal money spent on abortion. So what we are talking about right here is a totally useless and expensive investigation.

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