OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Providing Amounts for Further Expenses of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

Floor Speech

By: Judy Chu
By: Judy Chu
Date: Dec. 1, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Reproduction

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Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Today, Republicans are asking taxpayers to spend $800,000 to cover for their mistakes. The select panel to investigate Planned Parenthood, which was created based on lies spread by anti-abortion extremists, has already overspent the $1 million this Republican Congress has allocated them with no real findings. Now they want to continue their attack on women and Planned Parenthood. This is outrageous.

This select panel--along with 13 States, three House committees, and a Texas grand jury investigation--has found no wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood. It is clear that, after over a year of investigations, Republicans are not seeking truth or better policy.

Instead, this panel has released confidential documents to the public, compared researchers to Nazi war criminals, and exposed doctors and researchers to harassment and violence. We cannot continue to fund this fruitless witch hunt that endangers our researchers and slows important medical discoveries.

I strongly oppose this committee and urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''

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