House Republicans Dip Into Reserve Funds For Planned Parenthood Investigation
It only gets worse!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-republicans-planned-parenthood_564cf3f0e4b031745cefa68a
House Republicans Dip Into Reserve Funds For Planned Parenthood Investigation
Democrats say the GOP is wasting money on the probe, just like Benghazi.
Laura Bassett
Senior Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
Posted: 11/18/2015 07:03 PM EST
House Republicans are seeking to shift $300,000 from a reserve fund to the committee investigating Planned Parenthood, committee staffers said Wednesday.
Administration Committee Chairman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) circulated an informal poll to committee members on Tuesday proposing to transfer $300,000 of the committee's $500,000 reserve fund to the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees the subcommittee investigating Planned Parenthood. Administration Committee Republicans can approve the transfer without a hearing or debate.
The resolution doesn't give a reason for the transfer, but senior Democratic aides said it was funding for Republicans' select subcommittee to investigate the abortion practices of Planned Parenthood.
The three Democrats on the Administration Committee strongly opposed the transfer.
"Spending taxpayer money on this select panel is wasteful on substantive grounds and unnecessary on practical grounds," Reps. Robert Brady (Pa.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and Juan Vargas (Calif.) wrote Tuesday in a letter to Miller. "The committee should also consider any such transfer in a public meeting to ensure the opportunity for amendments and thorough debate."
The transfer is to "ensure our committee panels have the resources they, both majority and minority, need to conduct their oversight," Erin McCracken, spokeswoman for the Administration Committee, told HuffPost in an email. She didn't address the Democratic criticism....................
