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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Votes to Create Panel to Investigate Planned Parenthood
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-votes-create-panel-investigate-planned-parenthood-n440486The House has voted to create a special committee to investigate Planned Parenthood in the wake of GOP outcry about the group's handling of tissue from aborted fetuses.
The vote was 242 to 184, with two Democrats voting in favor and one Republican voting against.
The measure will create a 13-member panel to probe the organization, which is under fire after a series of sting videos by an anti-abortion group showed Planned Parenthood staff appearing to discuss the cost of the tissue....
Democrats have likened it to the special committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, saying that both are politically-motivated endeavors intended to push narratives harmful to Democratic presidential candidates.
The vote was 242 to 184, with two Democrats voting in favor and one Republican voting against.
The measure will create a 13-member panel to probe the organization, which is under fire after a series of sting videos by an anti-abortion group showed Planned Parenthood staff appearing to discuss the cost of the tissue....
Democrats have likened it to the special committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, saying that both are politically-motivated endeavors intended to push narratives harmful to Democratic presidential candidates.
So who were the two DINOs?
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House Votes to Create Panel to Investigate Planned Parenthood (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2015
OP
McCarthyism returns. And a new Speaker to lead these transparent political ploys has the same name!?
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. McCarthyism returns. And a new Speaker to lead these transparent political ploys has the same name!?
emulatorloo
(44,072 posts)2. Your taxpayer dollars at work.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)4. Wouldn't that ultimately violate the intention of the Hyde amendment?
Federal dollars devoted to a committee which hopes to put forth a proposal that would lead to more abortions. Indirect as it may be, in the end, it would be federal funds increasing the number of abortions.
Fools!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)7. Snarf!
ananda
(28,837 posts)3. And yet another huge waste of money for partisan goals.
Sheesh
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)5. You have GOT to be fucking kidding me.
Wait, it's repigs.
Brass-plated four-door assholes, every one.
This has all been debunked in every way possible.
spanone
(135,795 posts)6. yep, benghazi redux
they are shameless.
herding cats
(19,558 posts)8. Of course this isn't political either I'm sure.
I'm sick of these taxpayer funded witch hunts by the GOP!
BadgerKid
(4,549 posts)9. Really?
I thought the edits to the video were well publicized already.
Make stuff up, then investigate it over and over. Rinse and repeat. Thy name is GOP.