He swore that in his affidavit, this is somebody who is watching out for perhaps being prosecuted at the hearing that he had no personal knowledge of anyone at planned parenthood selling fetal tissue for profit. During his testimony, this is about 15 years ago, he admitted that he was paid by an antiabortion group to appear in the sting video. And i want to quote what he said. When i was under oath, i told the truth. Anything i said on the video when i was not under oath that is a different story. Does that not sound like the story of this video . I think it does. I want to know how you can protect yourself as an institutional matter, how do you deal with these repeated stings, unsuccessful though they are, being approached year after year as you attempt to provide Health Services for lowincome women . What do you do as an institutional matter with repeated stings to keep going in the face of this activity . Well, i think what keeps us going, and i think i could speak here for the thou
Five minutes. Ms. Richards, this is my 27th year in congress. Im sure i have seen many male witnesses treated much tougher than you have today. And surely you dont expect us to be easier on you because youre a woman . Absolutely not. Thats not how my mama raised me. Right. All right, let me ask you this. You say in your testimony a lot of women wouldnt have access to certain types of health care were it not for planned parenthood. Do you know that the department of health and Human Services say there are 9,727 Health Care Service delivery sites, 4,082 rural health clinics, 1,200 federally funded qualified Health Centers that also operate 9,000 other sites, over 9,000. Do you know about that . And you also know that there are over 2,000 pregnancy Health Centers over 80 which receive no federal funds at all. And that doesnt even count many hundreds of thousands of private doctors and nurses and Health Care Delivery services, walkin clinics and so forth. Have you taken all of that into co
Will take up a temporary spending measure. We are not sure when. That will have to go through the rules committee. Look for house coverage tomorrow on 10 00 a. M. On at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. The house today passed a measure that would allow states to exclude organizations like planned parenthood and other organizations that perform abortions from state medicaid funding. The white house has issued a veto threat on that legislation, no word on whether the senate will take that out. The issue of planned parenthood came before a link the hearing before the House Oversight link the hearing before the House Oversight committee. Parenthood president is Cecile Richards. She testified today. Here is the headline today. Planned parenthood chief goes headtohead with gop in an emotional hearing. Writes that the president insisted the organization had not broken the law, and the accusation it faced after embarrassing video that showed executors nonchalantly discussing fetal tissue discussions. She f
Prevailing his view is on capitol hill, and how warm the members of congress would be on working with members of russia. , it is something you hear the republicans say, for sure. I guess i was not surprised to hear from him, but it was quite blunt that he said that. I think putin has few friends on capitol hill. Said on the iran deal, he he would put legislation and to make sure our allies in the region have what they need to counter a Nuclear Threshold with iran. What does let me . Does that mean more arms sales . , he is talking about increasing Security Assistance to israel, and our gulf writers. His constituency is probably pushing him on this. Nowe is a lot of talk right on what israel is going to get, in terms of extra arms. The president did have that vid. Ing at camp da what they promised them is unclear. There is alway obviously going e some help that the United States will give both sides to counter their fears, or offset their fears, about the deal. Host that is it for our t
Where they want to go. This is fundamentally about individual rights and individuals aability to choose where they want to get health care. Its another example of politicians coming in to the examine room and making decisions. Now, my colleagues on the right, madam speaker, often will say they want to stand for individual rights. Well, planned parenthood has not broken any laws to my knowledge. If an individual patient wants to get their care at planned parenthood, thats their right. Planned parenthoods providing access to care. They are doing exactly what their name says, planning and helping families decide when they are ready to start a family. Planning parenthood. We should protect that fundamental individual right. Now, as a doctor i find it offensive when the government comes into my exam room and tells patients what they can and cant do. Fundamentally to the practice of medicine i have to answer my patients questions, empower them to make the choice that is they want to, and let