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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.

The five-term California Republican moved aggressively to lock up support to move into Congress’ top job, second in line to the presidency.

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“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”.

While no-class Planned Parenthood protesters did their best to disrupt an Iowa tailgate party for 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina, she turned the tables and schooled one of the miscreants.

But House Republican supporters of the bill said it would make it clear that federal law does not prevent states from excluding all Medicaid funding from a healthcare provider that offers abortions.

The fact that he is giving up his seat is a significant victory for conservatives who want to change how the federal government is run and funded, according to the SunHerald.

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...

In a sign that the tactic may be gaining favor among Republicans, however, the House Energy & Commerce is also preparing a bill that would use reconciliation to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds.

Planned Parenthood will make its first congressional appearance today since the release of undercover videos. The videos show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the transfer of fetal tissue to researchers.

Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, explained, “If we shut down the government, you can’t walk into Yellowstone Park, but you can walk into Planned Parenthood”.

The GOP presidential candidate got a scare when a large curtain fell across the stage, rod and all, in San Antonio, Texas, Sunday. “Carly wasn’t injured”, Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in an email.

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has taken heat from fact-checkers and critics over one of her most memorable lines from the second Republican presidential debate.

A native of Bakersfield, Ca., McCarthy, 50, was first elected to Congress in 2006 and elected majority leader in 2014.

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.