OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Providing Amounts for Further Expenses of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 1, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Women Reproduction

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Ms. ESTY. Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H. Res. 933, legislation that would waste an additional 800,000 taxpayer dollars on the partisan witch hunt against Planned Parenthood.

I learned from a young age the value of making quality reproductive health care available to everyone. In the rural town I grew up in, too many young women didn't have access to family planning services. Too many got pregnant, dropped out of school, and never pursued their dreams. That is why, in college, I volunteered with Planned Parenthood to ensure legal access to the full range of safe family planning services for all women.

So instead of funding a sham investigation, $800,000 could fund lifesaving breast exams, pregnancy tests, Pap smears, and ovarian cancer screenings.

Today I stand with women and men across this country to speak out against a baseless investigation, which has shamefully wasted tax dollars to attack the very people who most need our help.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT


Source
arrow_upward