smdxn:Boehner: There will be no government shutdown; select committee will probe Planned ParenthoodI
smdxn:Boehner: There will be no government shutdown; select committee will probe Planned ParenthoodIn his first major interview since announcing his pending resignation, House Speaker John A. Boehner vowed Sunday that there will be no government shutdown at the end of the month — adding that he will impanel a select committee to investigate Planned Parenthood after “undercover” videos renewed outrage among [regressives] about government funding for the women’s health provider…House Democrats and Planned Parenthood were quick to decry the formation of the new select committee.“House Republicans already have three standing committees with subpoena power conducting one-sided, biased attacks against Planned Parenthood, so it is unclear why they need a fourth,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement provided to The Washington Post on Sunday. “House Republicans either have no confidence in their sitting chairmen, or they are willing to waste millions of taxpayer dollars just to placate extremists within their own party.”In a statement on Sunday, Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, called the move to impanel a select committee a “five-ring circus.”“We will, of course, cooperate with any fact-finding inquiry —even though these investigations are all based on false and discredited claims, without a shred of evidence of wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood,” Laguens said. “This is really an attempt of to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood. It’s an assault on every woman whose breast cancer was caught early because of Planned Parenthood and every woman who has made her own decision about whether and when to have a child.” -- source link