"HOUSE APPROVES BILL THAT DISMANTLES PARTS OF OBAMACARE, DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD" -
Kate Scanlon / @scanlon_kate / October 23, 2015 / http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/23/house-approves-bill-that-dismantles-parts-of-obamacare-defunds-planned-parenthood/
American Life League and Stop Planned Parenthood International participate in the National Day of Protest on Aug. 22, 2015, at a proposed Planned Parenthood facility in Washington, D.C. (Photo: American Life League/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)
The House approved a budget reconciliation bill Friday that would repeal portions of Obamacare and cut federal funds to Planned Parenthood for one year. The legislation, called the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, was passed in a 240-189 vote.
One Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, voted in favor of the bill, and seven Republicans voted against it.Some felt that dismantling Obamacare in pieces wasn’t sufficient given that Republicans promised to completely repeal Obamacare.
The Daily Signal reported Thursday that Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a joint statement that the House reconciliation bill that repeals only parts of Obamacare “simply isn’t good enough.” Other Republicans argued that the legislation was a step in the right direction, and should move forward.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in a statement the bill “repeals the most coercive components of Obamacare—eliminating onerous taxes, the individual and employer mandates, an Obamacare slush fund, and lifting unnecessary burdens on employers and employees.” Price noted the legislation would increase funding for community health centers while eliminating government support for Planned Parenthood, which is under investigation after a series of undercover videos related to its role with aborted baby body parts.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group, praised the House’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“Today’s House vote cuts Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding—the most significant portion of the abortion business’s overall $528 million a year in taxpayer funding. Women have the most to gain from congressional action to reroute these tax dollars to community and rural health centers, which provide comprehensive health care services to women, but do not abort the lives of unborn children and harvest their body parts,” Dannenfelser said.
Some conservatives called the House’s action a “show vote” that won’t go anywhere in the Senate.
“The House reconciliation bill includes a number of vulnerable provisions that will be tough to get past the Byrd rule unless they are addressed,” said Paul Winfree, director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The Byrd rule allows senators to remove provisions in reconciliation legislation that don’t relate to budgetary matters.
“Ultimately, I suspect the bill will look very different if it gets through the Senate as a reconciliation bill,” Winfree said.
Kate Scanlon is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program. Send an email to Kate.
"House De-Funds Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Caught Selling Aborted Baby Parts" -
Steven Ertelt; Oct. 23, 2015;http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/23/house-de-funds-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-caught-selling-aborted-baby-parts/
"... Dozens of leading pro-life groups have already indicated their support for the bill, including the National Right to Life Committee. In a letter to members of Congress that NRLC provided to LifeNews.com, the group indicated it strongly supports the bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood
the bill that would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). It would close the largest pipeline for federal funding of Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and apply as well to the CHIP and the Title V and Title XX block grant programs, thus covering roughly 89% of all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. The amounts denied to Planned Parenthood in effect are reallocated to community health centers,” .."
“Over one-third of all abortions in the U.S. are performed at PPFA-affiliated facilities. Longstanding objections to the massive federal funding of PPFA have been reinforced by recent widely publicized undercover videos, which illuminate the callous brutality that occurs daily in these abortion mills,.."
Kate Scanlon / @scanlon_kate / October 23, 2015 / http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/23/house-approves-bill-that-dismantles-parts-of-obamacare-defunds-planned-parenthood/
American Life League and Stop Planned Parenthood International participate in the National Day of Protest on Aug. 22, 2015, at a proposed Planned Parenthood facility in Washington, D.C. (Photo: American Life League/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0)
The House approved a budget reconciliation bill Friday that would repeal portions of Obamacare and cut federal funds to Planned Parenthood for one year. The legislation, called the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, was passed in a 240-189 vote.
One Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, voted in favor of the bill, and seven Republicans voted against it.Some felt that dismantling Obamacare in pieces wasn’t sufficient given that Republicans promised to completely repeal Obamacare.
The Daily Signal reported Thursday that Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a joint statement that the House reconciliation bill that repeals only parts of Obamacare “simply isn’t good enough.” Other Republicans argued that the legislation was a step in the right direction, and should move forward.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in a statement the bill “repeals the most coercive components of Obamacare—eliminating onerous taxes, the individual and employer mandates, an Obamacare slush fund, and lifting unnecessary burdens on employers and employees.” Price noted the legislation would increase funding for community health centers while eliminating government support for Planned Parenthood, which is under investigation after a series of undercover videos related to its role with aborted baby body parts.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group, praised the House’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“Today’s House vote cuts Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding—the most significant portion of the abortion business’s overall $528 million a year in taxpayer funding. Women have the most to gain from congressional action to reroute these tax dollars to community and rural health centers, which provide comprehensive health care services to women, but do not abort the lives of unborn children and harvest their body parts,” Dannenfelser said.
Some conservatives called the House’s action a “show vote” that won’t go anywhere in the Senate.
“The House reconciliation bill includes a number of vulnerable provisions that will be tough to get past the Byrd rule unless they are addressed,” said Paul Winfree, director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The Byrd rule allows senators to remove provisions in reconciliation legislation that don’t relate to budgetary matters.
“Ultimately, I suspect the bill will look very different if it gets through the Senate as a reconciliation bill,” Winfree said.
Kate Scanlon is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program. Send an email to Kate.
"House De-Funds Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Caught Selling Aborted Baby Parts" -
Steven Ertelt; Oct. 23, 2015;http://www.lifenews.com/2015/10/23/house-de-funds-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-caught-selling-aborted-baby-parts/
"... Dozens of leading pro-life groups have already indicated their support for the bill, including the National Right to Life Committee. In a letter to members of Congress that NRLC provided to LifeNews.com, the group indicated it strongly supports the bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood
the bill that would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). It would close the largest pipeline for federal funding of Planned Parenthood, Medicaid, and apply as well to the CHIP and the Title V and Title XX block grant programs, thus covering roughly 89% of all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. The amounts denied to Planned Parenthood in effect are reallocated to community health centers,” .."
“Over one-third of all abortions in the U.S. are performed at PPFA-affiliated facilities. Longstanding objections to the massive federal funding of PPFA have been reinforced by recent widely publicized undercover videos, which illuminate the callous brutality that occurs daily in these abortion mills,.."
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