A Republican congressional leader on Monday defended a House investigation of Planned Parenthood’s provision of fetal tissue to researchers, offering no suggestion that last week’s shooting deaths at one of the group’s clinics will cause the GOP to retreat from that probe.
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The California Republican’s comments suggested that party members won’t make defunding Planned Parenthood their primary focus in the negotiations over the spending bill.
“We are rightly determined to prevent terrorist attacks wherever they occur, whether in the United States or with friends and allies like France”, he said at a news conference during an worldwide summit on climate change. Monday “Whipping people into a frenzy of hate and anger while providing easy access to firearms has proven disastrous to our country”.
“I say with some confidence the newly elected Speaker of the House doesn’t want to preside over a government shutdown six weeks into his tenure”, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during a briefing in Paris. In a statement, the governor’s office said the settlement included “concessions” from Planned Parenthood, including the assurance that it is “in compliance with Alabama law and does not participate in the practice of harvesting organs of unborn children and receiving reimbursement”.
“I think it’s unfair to hold Paul Ryan accountable for this particular omnibus”. “It would be like saying we have complaints about education reform in America so there are school shootings”. Republicans were able to win over almost four dozen House Democrats on the refugee bill last month, when Democrats said they wanted to respond to their constituents’ fears after the Paris violence. Called a budget reconciliation bill, it would also repeal parts of President Obama’s healthcare law.
A Democratic presidential front-runner, Hillary Clinton yesterday slammed Republicans calling for more stringent gun control and heightened protections for abortion rights. He said afterward he was “encouraged” by the more robust Senate language.
“This was an extremist and this was a man who obviously – and they said prior to this that he was mentally disturbed so he’s a mentally disturbed person – there’s no question about that”, he continued.
Debate on reconciliation is set to begin formally Wednesday and conclude Thursday, per several aides and senators.
While he tamped down talk of a shutdown, McCarthy said there would be no shortage of votes on policy amendments to the spending bill, though he declined to identify what those riders might be.
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After the attack, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced state police increased patrols around Planned Parenthood’s more than 60 clinics in New York He also said police will visit clinics to “assist with security and emergency planning measures”.
