Providing for Consideration of Establishing a Select Investigative Panel of the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this resolution. It is beneath the dignity of this Chamber to participate in an ideological witch hunt, especially one based on entirely false allegations.

The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee spent hours last week cross-examining Planned Parenthood's president about these claims, and even he has publicly admitted that they have no merit. So let us call this proposed committee what it really is, the select committee to attack women's health.

The majority wants to kill Planned Parenthood. If they succeed, many low-income women will have nowhere left to go for breast cancer exams, Pap smears, and a range of other lifesaving services. So this resolution tells these women flat out: We do not care about your health care. We do not care if you die.

The hypocrisy of the majority is breathtaking. One minute they condemn all government spending--even on health care for some of our poorest families--and now they plan to spend millions of taxpayers' dollars on a politically motivated witch hunt.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote against this disgraceful resolution.

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