“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”.
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.
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.
Gov. Tom Wolf and legislative leaders met Monday afternoon and said they might meet again Monday night as Pennsylvania nears the end of its third month without a budget.
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.
Those differences will become more pronounced with new House leadership eager to take on President Barack Obama and their Senate counterparts, setting up high-profile fiscal showdowns over the debt limit and budget.
Before electing a replacement for House Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Peter Roskam R-Ill. on Saturday morning is pushing his colleagues for a meeting to “confront the underlying issues” that led to his resignation.
They fear he will continue Boehner’s policy of refusing to fight for conservative policies. Pressing matters include striking a deal with President Obama to keep the government open through the coming fiscal year, raising the federal borrowing limit, passing a long-term...
During the interview, which was the first following his shocking resignation on Friday (25 September), Boehner said he “absolutely” believed that the more conservative members of the GOP had been unrealistic. But if he wins, he is likely to face the same pressure that...
Boehner himself lashed out at “false prophets” in the right’s ranks, blaming them for political strategies that “never had a chance” even while taking the government into fiscal crises.
Rep. Dennis Ross emailed colleagues today to say he is exploring a run for Majority Whip amid the openings brought by House Speaker John Boehner’s resignation.
Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Boehner was asked by host John Dickerson whether some in his party were “unrealistic about what can be done in government”.
Just two days after announcing he was quitting Congress, House Speaker John Boehner yelled and cried through an interview – focusing his ire on the “false prophets” in the right-wing of the Republican Party.