Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman. And I thank the gentleman for his leadership in organizing this hour. Mr. Speaker, we come to the floor tonight as mothers and grandmothers and dads and granddads, and we come with such heavy hearts and with such a burden for what we have found out, for what we have seen, and for what has been made public about Planned Parenthood. I will tell you, Mr. Speaker, that I thought it was very interesting that the head of Planned Parenthood came out this week and said, ``Oh, we think there are more videos to come.'' That is because they know they have been caught, and they know they are guilty, and they know what they have done; but no amount of trying to go out and push it to the side is going to push this to the side. That is why our committee, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is taking up an investigation. We are already working on this. We are pushing forward to get the witnesses before us and to exercise the appropriate oversight that is there for us to do. Planned Parenthood does get Federal taxpayer dollars. The problem is money is fungible. And when you see what has been carried out in these videos--in their own words what they describe--you know how destructive that process is. As Mr. Walker just said, Planned Parenthood conducts over 300,000 abortions a year. They are the Nation's largest abortion provider. Their focus is no longer family planning or women's health. It is abortion.…”