Former Gov. Jeb Bush eliminated state funds for Planned Parenthood centers in Florida, but they still received about $1.12 million in federal grants a year ago for sexual education and teenage pregnancy prevention programs.
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Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports”, while disusing last weeks shooting at the Colorado Springs, CO Planned Parenthood that resulted in the deaths of three people, the president of the Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards blamed “toxic” rhetoric from the presidential candidates for inspiring such shootings. “What Planned Parenthood is doing is wrong”, Fiorina asserted.
“I don’t know what they want”, she said.
“In the wake of this act of domestic terrorism, I commend Planned Parenthood for refusing to allow threats and violence to stand in the way of its work to ensure women have access to care”, Reid said from the Senate floor.
“It looks like a very normal day”, said Mohawk Hudson spokeswoman Emma Enness. “But the Taxpayers Rally to Defund Planned Parenthood can not continue while the families and loved ones of these victims are grieving”, Stemberger said in a released statement.
Planned Parenthood gets about one-third of its annual $1.3 billion budget from Washington.
A law enforcement official said Dear told authorities “no more baby parts” after being arrested, an apparent reference to secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing tissue donations that have fueled an uproar among congressional Republicans and abortion opponents nationally.
Many conservatives argue the spending bill is their main leverage with the administration, and are floating adding provisions to block implementation of climate change rules, Obamacare, and other Democratic priorities. Though McCarthy suggested the deadline for the funding bill could shift since Congress is scheduled to be in town until December 18.
McCarthy also said that after the terror attacks in Paris, “security is becoming the top issue” that he hears about from GOP colleagues.
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On Monday night negotiators to the highway bill and, separately, the No Child Left Behind measure, were in the final stages of their talks and gathering signatures from conference committee members, with hopes of releasing their final language Monday night or Tuesday.
