Posted on 07/28/2015 11:30:07 PM PDT by Morgana
The controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood is escalating on Capitol Hill as Senate Republicans vowed Tuesday to vote to cut off federal funds for the organization as early as next week and keep campaigning on the issue this fall.
After anti-abortion activists on Tuesday released a new video showing representatives from Planned Parenthood talking about fetal tissue sales, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) assigned a trio of senators to come up with a plan to defund the abortion rights group. Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) are trying to hash out a deal about how exactly to move forward on a proposal.
Although the vote is all but certain to fail, given strong Democratic support for the organization, Republicans feel they have a winning political issue. Planned Parenthood has come under fire after the anti-abortion activists released three videos based on secret recordings that all included discussions of selling fetal tissue. And the leader of the anti-abortion group behind the secret tapes has said it has thousands of hours of additional recordings.
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Same result,I agree,5 minutes after Congress votes to defund pp,Democrat fundraising letters go out,Republican War On Women,goes into full attack mode so the slaughter of infants will continue
I agree. Good idea. But the amendments that have nothing to do with the main substance of the bill are still not a good idea. They are attached to bills that originate in the House. Senate would still sometimes be stuck with having to vote up or down on a Christmas Tree. They are not supposed to grossly alter spending bills like they did with Obamacare and then make believe it originated in the House.
I wonder what ever happened to that legal challenge, by the way. I thought that was the best one. Especially after Roberts called the penalty a tax.
Consider that Mitch has done much much more than kiss their ass. He FORCED their funding through. And FORCED everything huklleBarry demanded through since he got the job. He is Harry Reid with an R velcroed over the D.
A powerless freshman vs. a Senate majority leader is not hard math. He is far more destructive than she could ever hope to be.
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