Pressure grows on Paul Ryan to end 'wasteful' Planned Parenthood inquiry

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Pressure grows on Paul Ryan to end 'wasteful' Planned Parenthood inquiry

Molly Redden in Washington
Tuesday 3 November 2015 12.00 GMT

Several top Democrats are pouncing on Paul Ryan’s promise of “wiping the slate clean” with demands that the new House speaker disband the Republicans’ special investigation into Planned Parenthood.

The calls started immediately after Ryan’s election as speaker with an open letter from Representative Louise Slaughter. Slaughter, a Democrat from New York, said special investigations into Planned Parenthood and Benghazi “wasted taxpayer money to inappropriately investigate pet political causes”.

On Monday, other ranking Democrats joined her demand that Ryan abandon the special committee formed to investigate claims, made in heavily edited sting videos, that Planned Parenthood violated federal law.

“If Speaker Ryan is serious about wanting to protect taxpayers’ hard-earned money and conduct serious business in the House, he has no choice but to disband this wasteful and partisan subcommittee,” said Representative Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the House energy and commerce committee, which is overseeing the special investigation into Planned Parenthood.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/03/planned-parenthood-paul-ryan-house-speaker-democrats-investigation

[CTyankee]

1. They will drag this out and it willjust be worse for them. one in five American women have been

to a PP health center in their lives. One in five! That is a shitload of WOMEN, folks...hey repub guys, wake up and smell the coffee.

[gratuitous]

2. Or, if they won't drop this wild goose chase

Demand that they launch a special investigation into the disclosure of KKK membership of sitting members of the House and Senate. Invoke the goose-and-gander principle: If it's good for the Planned Parenthood goose, it's good for the Sen. Cornyn gander.

[smirkymonkey]

3. I am so sick of the republicans wasting taxpayer money on these ridiculous witch-hunts.

If they don't lay off, I think we need to start playing hardball. There is certainly enough ammunition.