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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe new witch hunt begins: marsha blackburn now has $300,000 to investigate Planned Parenthood
The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, chaired by Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, was created in October after an uproar over Planned Parenthoods role in providing researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses.
Republicans have named eight members to the panel, a new House Energy and Commerce subcommittee. Democrats, who oppose the investigation, appointed six members.
A staff director for the investigation was recently hired, indicating the probe will require additional resources not already allocated to the full committee.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/24/initial-budget-for-house-probe-abortion-providers/76324162/
madokie
(51,076 posts)I swear the bastids are going to take us back to 1620 as sure as shit
Hugin
(33,164 posts)Probably further back than 1620. SMDH.
spanone
(135,844 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)gotta kill Hillary with a thousand cuts you know.
We can't have fair elections based on issues and facts here in America anymore it seems.
malaise
(269,057 posts)It's what they want.
librechik
(30,674 posts)that's the other half of the equation, right? You have to pay for these things somehow. Things even out in the big picture.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Accessories to murder is what they are.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)And all found no wrongdoing?
Rex
(65,616 posts)Yet the GOP suffers from mass hatred for the human race. Their pretend morality is a joke the world over.
Vinca
(50,279 posts)Republicans love to waste taxpayer dollars and this is just one more example.
spanone
(135,844 posts)they'll lap up all the 'brain harvesting' talk and 'baby parts' talk...
just like acorn.....which was disappeared
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32917270/ns/politics-cq_politics/t/democrats-run-away-embattled-acorn/#.Vls0v-I8WeE
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)...as they are abandoning social security.
I said 20 years ago that the Democratic Party would signal its vacuous and anti-progressive character when it abandons 2 issues:
1). Social security
2). Woman's right to choose
It's happening.
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15041-democrats-and-labor-a-tale-of-abuse
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Since the Party had already cast its lot with corporate power a generation ago.
The Party leadership is genuinely afraid of the Far Right, and it doesn't really matter the latter's numbers.
Chef Eric
(1,024 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)On Wednesday, for example, they hold a wine club nicknamed 'Wine Wednesdays,' where they drink wine from glasses that have the words 'Glacial Pace,' imprinted on them.
This is supposed to be a dig at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee's top Democrat, who used the term as a way to describe the speed of the committee's work.
Podliska also told the Times that several Republican staffers formed a gun-buying club at one point and discussed in the committee's conference room which 9-millimeter Glock handguns they wanted and what they'd inscribe on the guns.
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