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About this report is what it shows us is weve got a whole lot more work to do so that we can confront this threat and hopefully we know our committee has come together in a bipartisan fashion but this is an issue that should have no party lines because this is an American Issue were talking about safety to our people and hopefully we can convince the rest of our colleagues to move Forward Together to confront this crisis. Thank you congressman vela. The chair recognizes mr. Hurd from texas. Thank you chairman and Ranking Member thompson, the chairman katko, that was pleasure working alongside ...

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 th...

Coming up on the washington journal. Yesterday the president of planned parenthood testified for five hours on capitol hill. She was peppered with questions on how the group spends money, while democrats defended the services they provide. We want to get your take on the debate. Show to the planned parenthood . Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 send us a tweet, go to facebook. Com cspan, or email. S journal cspan. Org well get your thoughts in a minute. First, i want to show you 2 headlines. The Washington Times had this on the front page. The planned par...

Compensated in 2013, according to what you provided this committee with, correct . Yes . I think ive answered your question. Let me ask you about the travel for planned parenthood. Planned parenthood spent over 5 million on travel in 2013. Thats almost 14,000 a day. Was that first class, or was any of it charter jet . That would be nice. No. I dont fly 14,000 a day . We have eight million supporters in this country. We provide health care to 2. 7 million people. We provide Sex Education to 1. 5 million people. Is that correct . 14,000 dl 14,000 a day . Im happy to look at them. Can you provide...

Million figure gets thrown around so much. Thats why thats so misleading. It is reimbursements for fee for service treatment. And like other medical providers, planned parenthood is reimbursed for the health care it provides to these patients and thats generally the way Health Care Insurance works anyway, right . Thats exactly right. Just a different insurance program. We rely on providers to take in these patients, especially since medicaid generally reimburses at a lower rate than private insurance. Thats correct. And i think its really important because in so many states, as weve talked abo...