Chris Van Hollen: “I want to thank the ranking member for bringing those troubling revelations to the attention of the House. It shows what…”

“I want to thank the ranking member for bringing those troubling revelations to the attention of the House. It shows what a sham process this has been from the beginning. Mr. Speaker, we have got a lot of work to do in this Congress. We have got to come together with a budget agreement to keep the government open, to invest in our economy, to deal with modernizing our transportation infrastructure in this country. Yet, what are Republicans bringing to the floor? Another measure to create another so-called select committee to investigate Planned Parenthood, when, as we have heard today, three other House committees have already done that. And what has been the sum total of that investigation? Well, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee told us on national television when he was asked if Planned Parenthood had broken any laws, ``No, I'm not suggesting they broke the law.'' So when you don't get the answer you want, what do you do? Create another special committee. Rather than creating a special committee, the Government and Oversight Committee owes an apology to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, for dragging her through a committee process that was disrespectful, where the chairman of the committee began with a chart that PolitiFact determined was a pants-on-fire misrepresentation. That is the most untrue ranking you can get from PolitiFact, Pants on Fire. That was the gist of that hearing.…”