Posted on 09/30/2015 6:48:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yesterday was a tough day for Planned Parenthood’s chief executive officer Cecile Richards (daughter of former Texas Governor Ann Richards). In addition to a grilling on the shocking videos (she denied everything – it was all “doctored” even though complete unedited versions of the tapes were available), her lavish half million dollar-plus salary, first class travel and parties, and PP’s $127 million “surplus” (don’t call it a profit because PP is a non-profit, doncha know), she managed to get herself caught in a lie.
The organization stoutly maintains that only 3% of its services constitute abortions, as if it were a minor sideline. However, a whopping 86% of revenues of non-governmental revenues are derived from abortion, as Rep. Lummis’s questioning developed. But the lie came when Richards admitted under questioning that PP does not provide mammograms and denied that it had ever claimed it does. Shoshana Weissman of the Weekly Standard has the goods.
Cecile Richards, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on PPFA's use of taxpayer funding. During testimony, she falsely asserted that, "we've never stated that we did" provide mammograms.
Oops! Weissman posts this video from 2011 on CNN, when Richards herself claimed "millions of women are going to lose access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning, you know, mammograms...."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Lying isn’t a crime for a leftist, it’s a resume enhancer.
The CEO of PP is paid 20% more than the President of the U.S.A. for running a baby butchery with our tax dollars. That is outrageous. Shame on Mitch McConnell and his supporters who approve of this gross evil.
I know she was under questioning, what I don't know was she under oath, if so will she be prosecuted?
If they are not willing to prosecute than these hearings and whatever they are meant to accomplish is all mute.
direct link to the 86% testimony;
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4553000/abortions-86-non-government-planned-parenthood-revenue
RE: If they are not willing to prosecute than these hearings and whatever they are meant to accomplish is all mute.
I hasten to remind everyone that Congress has already placed Lois Lerner AND Eric Holder in CONTEMPT.
Kim Davis was jailed for contempt of court.
I am still trying to understand what the punishment for CONTEMPT of CONGRESS is.
Looks like nothing. If so, the whole thing is just for show.
Along with murdering children lying is what they do best.
“what I don’t know was she under oath”
I heard somewhere yesterday that she was under oath. What ya going do Redumblicans, will you ever set an examble of someone? If not a lying baby butcher, who?
STOP MAKING EXCUSES, CONGRESS IS REFUSING TO DO THEIR JOB!
Find them BOTH in Contempt of Congress and JAIL THEM NOW!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
bookmarked
Kabuki theatre to make us rubes in flyover country think our brave representatives are doing something about this.
If saving innocent lives isn’t worth shutting down the government, then what is?
Moot..................
” the whole thing is just for show”
Yep, Redumblicans think exposing PP will gain traction with the Public, but they are slow to learn that the Media wont report it. Guaranteed if the witch was tossed in jail for lying to Congress it would make the news, then the Public MIGHT learn whats going on.
Planned Parenthood didn’t report to state agencies that it had called 911 for a medical emergency inside one of its abortion chambers; they said it's b/c post-abortion hemorrhaging “not unusual”
FR Posted by Morgana / 5/20/14
Planned Parenthood Keystone, PA, had a novel excuse for failing to report the ambulance transfer of an abortion patient to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, as required by law.
When DOH inspected Planned Parenthood Keystone’s Allentown abortion clinic on February 27, 2014, it was surprised to learn a patient had begun hemorrhaging after her abortion on March 15, 2013, and taken to the hospital by ambulance.
This was a surprising because DOH is supposed to get a report from any medical facility within 24 hours after such an occurrence, and it didn’t in this case.
Planned Parenthood’s excuse?
Its Patient Safety Officer and Associate Medical Director “determined that this event did not constitute a serious event or incident…. Abnormal bleeding after a surgical abortion is not unusual nor is it unanticipated,” quoting from the report.
The chart stated “the patient began with excessive bleeding with noticeable large clots” after not one but two suction abortions, because “no products of conception were found” either time. The bleeding continued even after the injection of a clotting medication (Methergine)......which is when Planned Parenthood called 911.
CONCLUSIONS
<><> Planned Parenthood’s sub-standard care is shocking; large clots and hemorrhaging are expected normal outcomes of a first trimester abortion.
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If DOH didn’t realize Planned Parenthood’s misinterpretation of the law until this year, how many other botched abortions has Planned Parenthood covered up?
<><> DOH’s deficiency report also found that Planned Parenthood violated HIPAA privacy laws by leaving patient files with names on them out in the open.
Like the IRS, the BenGazi[sp?] and PP. Nothing, other than occupying time will become of them and at the proper time, they will disappear.
The political arena today consists of : !. Socialists Party A [formerly Democrat Party]. 2. Socialist Party B [formerly Republican Party] And in all political endeavors, Socialist Party A dominates.
I’d love to know the statistics of how many black and how many white babies are murdered by PP. I doubt they exist.
I wish Ted Cruz could be both Speaker of the House of Rep. and Senate Majority Leader at the same time. I think I’d almost take that over him being president if we had a few more senators like him in the Senate.
If she’s talking she’s lying.
The point is ‘moot’ because the Republicans in Congress are ‘mute’.
SHUTTING DOWN GOVT WILL LIKELY HAVE THE SAME EFFECT
AS THE 2013 SHUTDOWN-— HISTORIC REPUB VICTORIES:
The American people spoke loudly on Election Day 2014 WRT Washington’s back-door dealing, and power consolidated in the hands of a few House members.
The 2014 “Dem Demolition Derby” and down-ticket
state wins have yet to be fully- mined, but this we know:
<><> REPUBLICANS WON STUNNING HISTORY-MAKING ELECTORAL VICTORIES
<><> midterms were a massive and awesome rejection of liberals;
<><> Southern Democrats control not a single governorship, US senator or legislative chamber,
<><> Democrat losses stretch from the Carolinas westward to Texas,
<><> 110 Of 140 Southern States election districts went Republican.
<><> GOP’s House majorities are so huge and solid NBC’s Chuck Todd says Dems can’t recapture losses until 2022.
<><> Some pundits say Republicans have a 100-year majority;
<><> when the next US Senate convenes, 30 lock-stepping Democrats who voted for Obamacare are gone.
<><> Ark and Ill (Clinton hometowns) have Repub governors-—important in a prez race b/c guvs control party machinery.
<><> Unprecedented MINN 6th Congressional district-—every single House and Senate district went Repub
<><> GOP now controls the MINN State House.
<><> Ohio’s historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)
<><> Ohio’s Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer—all R-—Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D
<><> Britt Hume sez: “latino vote is zilch”-—”over-50” is significant 30% voting segment.
<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conference of State Legislatures factoid).
<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.
<><> GOP holds every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...
<><> Environmentalists fogged out-—suffered huge losses.
<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.
<><> “War on Women” became a ntl joke.
<><> Clinton’s labeled politically useless-—most candidates they flacked lost.
<><> Montana, So/Dakota and West/VA Dems were forced to retire; no hope of getting re-elected,
<><> Arizona House recount race went Republican.
<><> AZ Republican McSally wins last open House seat (Dem Gaby Giffords seat),
<><> Repub McSally’s win gives GOP 5-4 advantage in AZ congressional delegation,
<><> Repubs hold 247 House seats (Dems 188), the largest GOP advantage since the Truman admin after WWII.
<><> 73 percent of LA’s white voters say told they “strongly disapproved” of the president.
<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.
<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.
<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states’ legislature and Governor are Dem-held).
<><> 12 states, including Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, NC will push income tax cuts and fiscal reform.
<><> Illinois’ new Repub Governor’s top priority is reforming its nearly-bankrupt public pension system.
<><> Vermont Democrats allied w/ VT conservative Repubs to ward off voter backlash
<><> controversial and seemingly incompetent VT Democrat governor did not get the requisite votes to stay in office.
<><> VT poised to install Vermont’s first Republican governor in over four years
<><> Republicans now control two-thirds of the state legislatures.
The Republican wave did not end in November 2014. Last week, Republicans expanded their majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 170th district. Expanding a legislative majority in a blood red state that twice voted for Barack Obama.
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