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Democrats accused Republicans of engaging in baseless attacks against Planned Parenthood, with the larger goal of trying to limit women’s abortion rights, according to the New York Times.

Hassan has lauded Clinton for her plan to make college more affordable, calling her the leader “that New Hampshire families need fighting for them”. “That would be a very, very unfortunate decision“.

The videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood officials breaking the law come from an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress. “When it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood, the issue should not be partisan”.

“I’m not talking about republicans, I’m talking about Americans who look at these videos from Planned Parenthood and are just sickened by it”, said Representative Chris Stewart, ( R ) Ut. The Senate has not yet acted on the issue. It, too, faces likely...

Congress adjourned for the weekend with an October . 1 government shutdown deadline fast approaching and no clear plan from Republican leaders for extending funding for federal agencies.

Only three Republicans opposed the bill, which would cut off the approximately $500 million that Planned Parenthood receives through federal funding each year. The other bill, called the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, criminally charges medical workers who fail to...

One representative, Steve King, R-Iowa, voted as “present” for both H.R. 3134 and H.R. 3504, objecting that the bills allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and risks to the mother’s life. The bill, which has little chance of being enacted as Democrats hold...

Clinton suggested that Obama should have reached a decision on Keystone by now, or at least, so she expected.

Three Republicans voted against the defunding bill while 183 Democrats voted against it. Republican Steve King of Iowa vote present.

Calls by McCarthy and Ryan to stop the drama over Boehner likely won’t halt the jockeying for position in the House leadership chain, Politico reports.

However, since all spending bills must originate in the Republican-controlled House, Congressmen could introduce bills that allocate no funds for Planned Parenthood and force Democrats to try to amend the bills.

The bill has one co-sponsor in the Senate, but there is no companion bill in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.

The first in a series of hearings about Planned Parenthood kicked off Wednesday in Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats running in circles over whether or not the organization did anything wrong, failing to reach any common ground.

“I often get emotional about it because I understand this is not an easy decision”, Naluai-Cecchini said.

Planned Parenthood was not invited to testify at the hearing.