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“The deplorable practices at Planned Parenthood have been exposed to Americans, and I have chose to stop any association with the organization in Alabama”, Bentley said at the time.

Brent crude oil was virtually flat at $48.20 a barrel, heading for a near 10 percent fall this month.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards answered questions before a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 29, as congressional efforts to end taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider continue.

The controversial bill, appropriately titled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 54 votes. The battle has been rejoined just in time for the 2016 election campaign and next week’s historic address to Congress by...

The makers claim it shows Planned Parenthood employees negotiating the sale of fetal tissue for profit, which is illegal.

In an emotional hearing on Capitol Hill, Planned Parenthood’s chief had a heated conversation with House of Republicans on Tuesday as she tried to protect her organization from questions about the ethics and legality of the activities going on inside its clinics. In truth,...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday for a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, but it did so without Congressman Ralph Abraham’s vote.

“Half of our health centers are in medically underserved communities”. “All these clinics, as far as I know, take Medicaid dollars, so you could go to any of those clinics to get any medical service you could”.

House Republicans asked Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards for more information about how much money the organization makes on abortions, sends overseas and spends on travel and salaries, following a grueling five-hour hearing Tuesday examining the nonprofit’s use...

Although a non-government-subsidized portion of Planned Parenthood’s funding goes to abortion services, most government funding provides pap smears, STD testing, HIV testing, birth control, pelvic, and breast cancer screenings for almost three million women.

The warning came ahead of a Senate procedural vote on the measure.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor after Senate Democrats filibustered a government funding bill that would have redirected money from Planned Parenthood to Community Health Centers. Not so much that a shutdown over the spending bill was in the offing, but...

North country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is calling for Congress to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, a position that places her at odds with the most conservative members of her own Republican party.

The bill, up for a vote on Thursday, will likely be blocked by Democrats, setting up Republicans for a government shutdown threat over an opportunity to increase spending.

The next steps aren’t set in stone, although McConnell has promised there won’t be a government shutdown. Threatening to shut down the government if Planned Parenthood funding remains in the current budget has certainly been their most prominent – and urgent –...