Chris Smith: “I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), my friend and colleague. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Smith, thank you for…”

“I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), my friend and colleague. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Smith, thank you for yielding, and also thank you for your amazing leadership on year after year putting this in front of the people and highlighting--or lowlighting--just what this has been. It is probably very mind-boggling for many Americans to contemplate that this has been going on for 43 years, since the Supreme Court ruling, out of whole cloth, Roe v. Wade. And it must be very mind- boggling when we remind Americans that at this time over 57 million abortions have been performed since that. We know that over 7 million have been performed by Planned Parenthood--7 million--making them the largest abortion provider in the country. {time} 1830 Yet you will hear Planned Parenthood argue that it is a tiny part of what they provide as far as what they might deem to be women's health services. If it is such a minor part of what they do, then maybe they ought not be demanding and asking for government funding. Indeed, that was taken care of this week in the measure that was sent to the President's desk. We will see what the President decides to do with that. With Planned Parenthood providing 323,000 abortions just in 2014 and receiving $550 million in taxpayer funding, we see that this is a wrong that is mind-boggling to most Americans as well.…”