“This is so typical of the left, to immediately begin demonizing the messenger because they don’t agree with the message”, Fiorina said Sunday.
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“And yet in the United States we have the power to do more to prevent what is just a regular process of gun homicides that is unequaled by multiples of five, six, ten”.
The multiple congressional investigations into Planned Parenthood were triggered by a series of undercover “sting” videos this summer, which accused the group of harvesting and profiting off aborted fetal organs.
Fiorina, who was a leading proponent of stripping away federal funds for the women’s health clinic earlier this year, didn’t shy away from continuing her own criticisms of the embattled organization saying that “the vast majority of Americans agree, what Planned Parenthood is doing is wrong”.
“I think they know it was a loser”, Pelosi said of proposals to limit Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood representatives said Monday that Austin-based federal judge Sam Sparks had set a 9:30 a.m. hearing to discuss the organization’s attempt to block officials from kicking it out of the state Medicaid program.
Todd pressed Trump and asked him if he was “surprised that someone would take an extreme reaction” to the Planned Parenthood videos, and Trump said, “Well this is 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”. Ted Cruz said Monday in Iowa.
The spokeswoman said Lawrence hopes to reschedule the event.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell did note at the outset that so far there’s been no official “direct connection” between Republican rhetoric and the shooter’s actions, but noted how the GOP reaction to the shooting was “slow” at first.
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.
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”.
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The No. 2 House GOP leader touted the veto-proof margin on legislation that passed the House before Thanksgiving that would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to certify any refugees from Iraq and Syria don’t pose a security threat. Budget watchdogs say tapping into Federal Reserve surpluses is nothing more than a $59 billion gimmick and that the highway bill will actually add that figure to the government’s nearly $19 trillion debt.
