jobs, our military, and those who support our military? >> you're saying that's what's happening, right? i know that. i heard that. i heard that yesterday actually. ot a good situation. one more question. make it a good one. go ahead ma'am. right here. go ahead. give her the mike. go ahead. make it a good one. >> i would like to know what your plans are on social security. >> we're going to save social security. we're going to save it. we're going to save social security. that was your deal. right? we are going to save social security, make life for the vets better than ever in this country. we are going to build up the military. we're going to end, terminate, repeal obama care, and replace really, omething

really great that works. ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. it was great. thank you. thank you. [cheering] >> thank you. thank you. ♪ we're not gonna take it no we're not going to take it we're not going to take it anymore ♪ ♪ there ain't no way we'll lose it this is our life this is our song ♪ we'll fight ♪ we're not gonna take it no we ain't gonna take it we're

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♪ attorney general loretta lynch will speak later today hosted by congressman john conyers with focus on justice reform and policing in the minority community. now, another town hall from campaign 2016. this one held by g.o.p. presidential candidate and neuro surgeon ben carson in california. it's about 50 minutes.

>> this is the epi center of the conservative movement in california. because we believe and we govern by economic freedom, we were the first county to come out of recession. we were the county that stopped the super majority in the state legislature. and we're the county that will start the renaissance in california. that's why every republican candidate come to this county. some come to fund raise and we contribute. but we appreciate those like president reagan who come to speak to the people.

samuel adams once said that if a time comes when vain and aspiring men hold the highest seats in the government the nation will depend on its patriots to prevent its ruin. ladies and gentlemen, i'm here to tell you that the current occupant of the white house is one of those men. but our guest today is one of those patriots. [cheers and applause] from his speech two years ago to his call at the end of the last debate for those of us to pick up the baton of freedom dr. ben carson is inspiring thousands. so, please, give a big orange county welcome for a patriot of the first order and candidate for president of the united states, dr. benjamin carson. [cheers and applause] ♪

cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. now, that's what i call a wonderful california welcome. i appreciate that. thank you for -- thank you so much.

i love you too. thanks so much for coming out n this incredibly hot day. the air conditioner in here was broken. just not many hours ago it was 94 degrees in here. i just want to thank the technical people who got it fixed. [cheers and applause] i'll tell you, one of the wonderful things that i've discovered about our tremendous country is that we have a lot of talented people here who are capable of all kinds of things. i remember in the first set of conjoined twins that i operated on -- and i've done several sets. in order to get that done appropriately, it required way more than just me.

we required some outstanding antheseologists and critical care people, plastic surgeons, card yo thoracic surgeons. incredible nurses. nurses are my favorite people. in fact, the nurses invented a new kind of drape that had sleeves that look like an accordian so that when you pull the beds apart assuming that we got that far, they would fall in place and preserve the steryilt of the fill. then we had technical people who rewired the operating room in case there was a problem, in case all of the equipment caused a ploout. and the point being -- blowout. and the point being that together as a team it was possible to accomplish something that had not been accomplished before. [cheers and applause]

now, people are saying to me constantly, you know, no one like yourself, a political novice, has ever been successful in running for president of the united states. well, i'll tell you something. if i listened to all the people throughout my life who said this has never been done before, this cannot bh done, i wouldn't be talking to you today. cheers and applause] then there are those who say you don't have elected political experience. if you look at the collected political experience in congress it comes out to about

8700 years. where it has it gotten us? and the fact of the matter is, our system was really designed for the citizen statesmen. it was not designed for the rofessional politicians. a lot of times people say to me, why in the world, after a wonderful career in medicine, would you dane to soil your reputation by getting into the political arena? and i ask myself that, too. but i'll tell you why. on a very serious note. my entire professional career was spent trying to bring

healing to children. to give them longevity and quality of life. and -- [cheers and applause] i've had a lot of experience doing other things. i spent 18 years on the board of directors of kellog, 16 years on the board of directors of cost co-. years on bio tech. and biomedical company. advisory boards of many other organizations. my wife and i started a national scholar recognition program. in all 50 states. [applause] which has won two major national awards, which is only given to one organization in the country per year -- twice. ok? nd i say that for those people

who say, but he as doctor. he can't possibly know anything else. he might know a little neuro surgery. he's an i had yatser vanity. he doesn't know anything else. can you imagine how stupid you have to be to think that? to think that somebody could become a neuro surgeon and come up with new methods of doing servant. be an idiot you have to be completely in nonpossession of your faculties to believe that. but at any rate, the thing that of all the things that i've done, the thing that resonates most closely to my heart is and that family comes in eir 3-year-old, who is the

most precious thing in their been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. and through the grace of god you have the ability to remove that tumor and give that family back hope. cheers and applause] and there are those who think that a long pedigree of political experience or a long pedigree of business experience is the most wonderful thing in the world. but i personally think saving lives is the most wonderful thing in the world. cheers and applause] with you i wasn't the person -- but i wasn't the person you would have picked when i was a

youngster, who would grow up and have this fantastic career. you probably would have not even thought that i would have survived. as a youngster, after my parents were divorced, we lived in the most dilapitated ghetto imaginable. sirens, gangs, murders. i saw people laying on the street with bullet holes waiting to die. both of my older cousins who we adored were killed. and i didn't think that i was going to have long jeft in this nation. my mother -- and i really believe that she is the hero in my life. it was my mother -- [cheers and pplause] i find it kind of funny when people like hillary say i'm

engaged in a war on women. my life would be nothing without women. i've got to tell you. cheers and applause] even though she had an incredibly difficult life, one of multitude nal children in tennessee getting married at age 13, moving with my fath tore detroit, later on discovering that he was a big mist having only a third grade education herself trying to raise us by herself. but she, regardless of that, never became a victim. and she never felt sorry for herself. and that was a good thing. cheers and applause] the problem is she never felt sorry for us, either. she always came out with with this poem called "yourself to

blame." it didn't matter what anybody else was doing. she would say do you have a brain? and if you do then you could have thought your way out of it. and that was perhaps the most important thing she did for us. because i'll tell you something, if you can wallow in an excuse, you don't have to do anything. you can always point to somebody else. you can always blame somebody else. you can blame bush, you can blame anybody. but when you decide that it is you and the buck stops there, then you are incentivized to do something in your life. and that's what i found to be the case. cheers and applause] as a youngster, i was not a very good student. my mother was out working two, three jobs at a time. i hated poverty. some people hate snakes and rats, spieders.

i hated poverty. hat is, until my mother made us start reading books. now, i didn't like the idea of reading books. prayed to god and somehow came up with this idea that we were supposed to turn off the tv and read books. i was not happy about it. and her friends would say you can't make boys stay in the house read books. they'll grow up and they'll hate you. and i would sometimes hear that , i would sometimes overhear her friends and i would say, mother, you know they're right. but it didn't matter. we had to do it anyway. but as i started reading those books, as i started reading about people, of tremendous accomplishment, and all kinds of fields, it became clear to me that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you in life is you. it's not somebody else.

cheers and applause] once i understand that poverty didn't bother me any more because it was only temporary. i knew i had the ability to change my circumstances. [cheers and applause] and it is something that i want people in this country who are downtrodden, who perhaps were not born with a silver spoon in their mouth -- i want them to recognize that that is still true in america. you through your own efforts can do a lot. it doesn't mean that we shouldn't help them. because we americans are very compassionate people. perhaps the most compassionate people the world has ever

known. why is it -- why is it that we were so successful as a nation? we had communities that were separated from each other by hundreds of miles. and yet they thrivered and they grew -- until we were coast to coast. how did that happen? because in those small communities people cared about each other. the compassion was there. if it was harvest time and a farmer fell out of a tree picking apples and proke his leg, everybody else pitched in and harvested his crops. if somebody was killed, took care of their families. we, the people, care about each other. and this is what we must begin to do once again in this country. it is our responsibility. cheers and applause]

it is not the government's responsibility to take care of everybody else. [cheers and applause] whole subject of compassion, let me talk a little bit about immigration in this country. t's a problem. we have a problem with illegal immigration in this country and we've got all kinds of theories that people want to put forth about how we should do this. let me tell you something, one with illegal success immigration in this country and we've got all big picture and figure out what the big problem is. the big problem is is being able to look at the we have a porous border and we need to

seal the border. that is the problem. my wife and i a few weeks ago were down on the border in arizona. yes, there were fences. but they were the kind of fences when i was a kid that would barely slow us down. it was ridiculous. area where one the illegals had cut a big hole in the fence and they repaired it by putting some strips of barbed wire across it. there were a lot of camera men with us. they wanted to shoot us from the mexican side and they went right through this. they were not athletic people with all of their equipment, and they were able easily to shoot us from the other side. is that ridiculous? and in terms of the border patrol i didn't see any border patrol out there. now, if you go 70 miles inland

you'll see the border patrol. they need to be on the border. that's why they're called border patrol. cheers and applause] but that's only part of the problem. because then the sheriffs and -- i've got to tell you something. i was so g pressed with the deputy sheriffs down there. these people put their lives on the line. cheers and applause] yesterday, i met one of them who was in a wheel chair because he had been shot and paralyzed doing his duty. these people are incredibly courageous. but they tell me they have to keep rearresting the same people because i.c.e. comes

along and says release these people. we don't have proper documentation in order to keep them in jail. if they had proper documents, they wouldn't be illegal aliens. [cheers and applause] it's craziness. so it's very frustrating to them. the worst thing is that it's an open highway for drug traffic. and heroine is just pouring into our country. and it's frying the brains of so many people, and it's stimulating crime in our country. and these are the kinds of things that we need to be concerned about. we have the ability to shut those borders. not just the southern border but all of our borders. we have the ability to do it. because i'm just as concerned about the global jihaddists who want to destroy us as i am

about the drug dealers who are coming in here. cheers and applause] and at some point we have to exercise some logic and common sense if we're going to save our nation. i could talk about this for a long time. but i want to transition to another area that is really i think going to kill us if we don't deal with it, and that is our fiscal irresponsibility. we are looking -- [applause] we're looking at a national debt of over $18 trillion. we can say that number but can you even comprehend what $18 is? if you tried to pay that back at a rate of $10 million a day, 365 days a year, it would take you more than 5,000 years.

and that is what we are putting on the backs of these young people. that is unfair. thomas jefferson said it is immoral to pass debt on to the next generation. if we could transport thomas jefferson -- if we could transport thomas jefferson into today's society he would immediately stroke out. he wouldn't even be able to believe what we were doing. we do have a responsibility to the young people. to the next generation. and it is actually much worse than this. the fiscal gap -- i want you to look that up when you go home tonight. fiscal gap. that is the unfunded liabilities that we have as a nation, governmental programs,

cabinet programs, social security, medicare, medicaid, all the programs going forward versus the revenues we expect to collect from taxes and other revenue sources. if you're fiscally responsible those numbers should be pretty close together. bring it forward to today's dollars and the difference is the fiscal gap. it now sits at over $200 trillion. it's a staggering and unimaginable amount. you will notice that politicians do not talk about the fiscal gap. because they want to be reelected. but i'm not a politician so i'm going to talk about it. cheers and applause] because, you see, we have to

in order to is assess what's being told to us. our founders said that our system and our freedom is based upon a well-informed and educated populous. because that's the only way that they can make appropriate voting decisions. but if they don't know how can they? and if people don't know the desperate financial situation we're in and somebody comes along and says i think we should have free college for everybody, and you'll say, oh, what a wonderful lady. without recognizing that that's accelerating the financial collapse of our nation. e only reason -- cause chaws

-- [cheers and applause] the only reason that we can sustain that kind of debt is because we can print money. we are the reserve currency of the world. that's the position that usually goes with the number one economy in the world, which we were until last year when china became the number one economy. how long we will be able to continue to print money. i think we have a grace period that god has given us to that we need to address this now. the longer we wait to address this, the more dracobeion the measures will be. and we are putting that on the backs of the next generation and we cannot do it. we can address it right now. there are a number of things that we can do. for one thing, we have the highest corporate tax rates in the world. in the developed need to address this now. the longer we wait to address this, the more dracobeion the w

that's absurd. and it's driving business out of this nation. what i would recommend as one of the first things in a carson administration would be -- cheers and applause] one of the very first things or d be a tax holiday hiatus on corporate taxes for that money that is overseas, over $2 trillion and we can repate rat that and it wouldn't cost the taxpayers here one ingle penny. i would require that 10% of the money being brought back be used to create jobs for people who are unemployed and on welfare. t would be an enormous stimulus. but it would also begin to

eestablish business, industry, academia, wall street, churches, community groups. it would begin to reestablish the true relationship that helped make america great. and that is people investing in other people. that's what will save us as a nation. cheers and applause] the government has other jobs. and one of the things that we probably should do is to distribute copies of the constitution to them so they can see what they're supposed to be doing. cheers and applause] and one of the things that came up this week, of course, ms. davis down in kentucky, who had

i go to jail -- which was, think, inappropriate. there were other thing that is could have been done. that was probably not the right one, because the supreme court had not overstepped their boundaries and done what they did at the time that she took that job. so the circumstances changed. and all she was asking is that her name not be put on the documents. she was not trying to obstruct anybody from doing anything other than that. this is a country of, for, and by the people where we live and we allow others to live. we do not impose our will upon other people, but we do not allow other people to impose us. will on [cheers and applause] when we talk about liberty and

justice for all, that is what we're talking about. we don't pick and choose certain groups who get extra rights. and extra rights includes redefining things for everybody else. we don't do that. now, congress has a responsibility. they have a responsibility to stand up for the people because they represent the people. so when the supreme court oversteps its boundaries, the reason that we have separation of powers is so that the other parts of the government can correct the situation. they need to do it. [cheers and applause] don't step up to the plate and now create some legislation to protect the religious rights of people in

this country, believe me, it will just escalate. and it will get beyond anything that we're seeing now. you know that's going to happen. so congress, if you're listening, please if your leadership won't do it then you do it yourself. but get up and protect the people's religious rights. cheers and applause] w, finally, we're going to have a little q&a session. but before we do that, i just want to say if we are going to have the nation that we desire, every single one of us has to get involved. in the prerevolutionary days the people did not like the tyranny of king george iii and they began to have town

meetings. they even invited the loyalists. and they said what kind of country do you want to pass on to your children and your grandchildren? what are you willing to fight for? what are you willing to die for? and they encouraged each other, how a rag tag how a rag tag bu of militiamen defeated the most powerful and professional military force on earth. cheers and applause] and if everybody in here will mmit to using your sphere of influence, talk to the people that you know in your sphere of influence about what kind of country they want to have. because the issues that affect us, the fiscal issues, the issues with global terrorism, going isiveness that's

on in our society these are not democrat and republican issues. these are american issues. and we must be americans first. important. 2012, 93 million people who . uld have voted didn't vote of ons and millions important. evangelicals didn't vote. you of evangelicals didn't vote. you need to tell those people that you know who fit in those categories that when you don't vote, you are voting. but you're voting for the other side. they need to understand that. and if everybody in here -- [cheers and applause] if everybody in here gets three people who didn't vote involved, i don't even care if they don't vote for me.

i just want them to be involved. i want them to start listening to what's being said. i don't want them listening to the pundits and the people who try to control your minds. i want them to think for themselves to open their ears and to listen. because that's what will save our nation. that is what will do it. [cheers and applause] and lastly, there's so many eople who say i don't like you because you talk about god. and you believe in god. and we -- [cheers and applause] and they say we're not supposed to talk about god. well, you know what? let me tell you something. our founding document, the declaration of independence

talks about certain inalienable our s given to us by creator [cheers and applause] and -- [cheers and applause] -- the pledge of allegiance to that flag says we are one nation under god. [cheers and applause] our and [cheers and applause] on the wall in many courtrooms it says in god we trust. every coin in our pocket er bill in our wallet says in god we trust. [cheers and applause] if it's in our founding documents, in in our pledge, courts and money, but we're not supposed to talk about it, what in the world is that? in medicine we call it schizophrenia. [cheers and applause] and [cheers and applause] doesn't that -- [cheers and applause] doesn't that explain a lot of what's going on in our country

today? and we need to be bold about the fact that there is nothing wrong with living by godly principles of loving your neighbor. [cheers and applause] of caring about the person next to you. of developing your god-given talents so that you become valuable to the people around you of having values and that govern your life. and if we do that, not only will we remain a pinnicle nation but we will truly have one nation under god, if we do will we remain a pinnicle nation but we will truly have one nation with liberty and justice for all. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. cheers and applause]

>> i'd like to introduce myself. i want to thank you for all your support. i just want you to know i'm candy carson and i approve this message. [cheers and applause] >> ok. now, we have some people with microphones down here who will be able to take a few of your questions. >> a president once said speak softly and carry a big stick. what are you going to do? >> a lot of people have been concerned about the fact that i'm soft spoken and appear to e mild man dangered. -- manrd.

i'll tell you a secret. the less you have to say, if you really don't have anything to say, very often you shout that. when you have plenty to say, you show that. and you show that with what you do. somebody who u, is timid and afraid does not become the first person to separate conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. it doesn't happen. k?

[inaudible] will i stick around for 8 years? chawschaws >> dr. carson. my name is john stires. in a couple days we've [inaudible] will got 9/11 approaching like say god bless all those who are serving. i served myself. i still have a son in-law that's serving. my question to you, sir, is what is your plan to help this country so something like 9/11 does not happen again in this country? >> that's a very good question. first of all, i was at the 9/11 memorial about a month ago. it's very touching. one of the things that really impressed me was how many first responders were killed. approac say god policemen, firemen, it really ains me right now when i see the hatred of so many for so many for our policemen who put their lives on the line every day.

[cheers and applause] are there policemen who make mistakes and do bad things? of course there are. there are also plummers who make mistakes and do bad things and teachers and presidents. and all kinds of people. now, does that mean that the whole group is to be condemned and that we should go around trying to shoot them and do -- i mean, think about how silly that is. the people who are getting caught up in those kinds of emotions who in some cases may be justified, maybe have had some injustice. but that's not going to solve the problem. we need to be thinging about the things that really work and that work for all of us. and to be innocent about it. now, as far as the people who

are trying to destroy us are concerned, the global jihaddists, there are a lot of people who say we don't want to get involved. we got involved in 2003 in iraq, and we lost a lot of people and we waste add lot of money. and we need to learn from that and we shouldn't go back there again. and you know what? i actually understand why they feel that way. but that is not smart. because this is a very different situation. shaum was not an exiss -- saddam hussein was not an existential threat to us. the global jihaddists are. they want to destroy us, they want to destroy israel. they want to destroy our way of life. if we continue to allow them to continue to grow, expand, and realize their califate, get nuclear weapons, they will succeed. our job is to destroy them first. cheers and applause]

see, you don't expect that from guy. -- soft-spoken do you? but i'm thinking about our children. and there are some people who say, how can you say that? how can you advocate potential war or violence? i've talked to a number of our generals. and do you know what they've told me? they said, we could easily take in all of that land and -- iraq and in syria. and we could easily wipe them out -- if you let us do it and our hands behind our backs. cheers and applause]

and i would use everything that we had available to us to make sure that happened. and i certainly wouldn't be making stupid deals with iran. [cheers and applause] you know? [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] you know? choose chaws -- [cheers and applause] hope at some point that our congressional leaders don't just go along with this president because he's the president. he says i'm going to make this executive deal with iran and we're going to involve some other countries. they should insist that this is a treaty. it fits all the definitions of a treaty. it should be treated as a treaty which would require two thirds of the senate to approve

it. cheers and applause] because it is not a treaty, it's an executive deal, it has no standing once this president is gone. cheers and applause] >> what do you want to be when you grow up? >> what do i want to do when i grow up. you know, what i really want to do is make sure that you can do what you want to do when you grow up. [cheers and applause] cheers and applause] >> dr. carson, i want to thank

you for coming up here and running and being an excellent roll model to everybody, and really -- [cheers and applause] first off, i just want to say, out for shipping basic training in about four months -- [cheers and applause] and i want to know, what are your plans for strengthening the military. >> strengthening the military. >> thank you. thank you for asking that. and thank you for what you're going to do. we appreciate you. i have to tell you, i have great affinty for the military. i almost ended up going that route. i was offered a full scholarship to west point. i decided to go the medicine route instead. but we've always had a lot of friends in the military and we have some incredibly smart

people in the military. one of the thing that is disturbs me enormously is the way that we treat our veterans. know? we right now, 22 to 23 of our veterans are commiting suicide every day. know? that's the tip of the iceberg. and it tells you that we are not treating them the right way. i think the day that someone enlists in the military we should enroll them in a support program, and that should be with them throughout their entire military career. and -- [cheers and applause] and a year before their discharge is planned we should have people working on their transition so that they are not unemployed when they come out. cheers and applause]

and they should have health savings accounts subsidized by the government and they should be able to go to any clinic or hospital that they want to and we should be happy to take care of them. [cheers and applause] now, some people have made a big deal of the fact that i said that we should consider another mechanism of taking care of them other than the v.a., which doesn't seem to do a very good job. you know, my main point is we cannot continue to neglect them. and we're smart enough to figure out a way that they don't fall between the cracks and that they get the adequate care that they need. because one of the things that's really killing us right efforts recruitment for our volunteer military forces is down 14%. and it's continuing to drop. and it's because they're seeing

things like the way we're treating our veterans but also recognize that our navy is at its smallest size since 1917. our air force at its smallest size since 1940. the commandant of the marine corps in recent testimony said that that many of our nondeployed units are not combat ready. and you look at how the sequester is affecting our military forces, our lieutenant colonels and captains and majors getting letters saying you need not bother to reapply, it's cutting the heart out of the personnel. and the morale in our military is at its lowest than anybody can remember. now, think about this. and i will have to conclude with this. but remember, let's say pothetically that i was in charge of this nation. cheers and applause]

ll, but let's say i really wasn't a patriot and i wanted to destroy this nation. let me tell you what i would do. i would try to create friction between all the people. i would have a war on women and race wars and income wars and age wars and religious wars. i would drive the debt to such an unimaginable level that it destabilized things. i would bring in people from other countries and giving them benefits. i would be giving people free telephones. asking everybody to get on food stamps. you know, i would be offering free college. i mean, i would be doing everything just to drive that level of debt to unsustainable

levels. and then i would do everything i could to weaken our military while our enemies were growing. now, that's what i would do. any resemblance to what's going on, i'm sure, is purely coins dental. ok. can see -- you can see why it is so important for e, the people, to be awake and not allow ourselves to be manipulated. and don't let somebody tell you next to you is your enemy just because you believe something different. it's ok to have different beliefs. ok? we're still all america. and we have much more in whon than the things that separate us. and that's what we must keep in ind, because our strength is

in our unity. and we cannot allow anybody to separate us from each other. we, the people. it's all about us. thank you. [cheers and applause] cheers and applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. visit ncicap.org

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getlewoman from north calina is recognized for one hour. . foxx: madam speaker, during consideration of th resolution, all timed is for the purpo of debate only -- all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. i now yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlan from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. i k unanimous consent that all members have five legislative day to revise and extend their remarks. thepeaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. foxx: madamaker, house resolution 421 provides closed rules for consideration of h.r. 3134the defund planne parenthood act, and h.r. 3504, the born alive abortion survivors protection act. today, madam speake we provide for consideration of two vital pieces of legislati addressing one of the most importanissues

of our time. on many previous occasions, my colleagues and i have spoken on the issue of abortion and the tragedy it is that unborn children are nosafe and proteced. we're n here today, though, debating the policy of abortion on demand. we'reebating specific legislative reactions to horrificrongs that have come to light. the deliberate dismemberment of unborn children to receive mpensation for their organs and other body parts a the failure of abortion facilities to care for children born alive during failed abortions. even some who support elective abortion agree that thos practices are barbaric and must be stopped. the horrific reality of these pracces in the abortion industry have become clear over thpat few months as undercover videos ve been

released of planned parenthood's leaders and affiliates discussi pain stakgl dismbering rn children for comment sati. -- mpensation. in these days of 3-d ultrasounds and high definition screens, it's impossible to hidehe humanity of these child victims. thehave fgers a toes, heartbeats and organs, developed enough that tiue collectors will pay $60 a secimen for them in light othe serious qions raised by thee videos,he house committee on energy andommerce, judiciary and orsigh and gernmen erm have each launched investitions. while plned parenthoodoes not receive direct federal fundingor abortions, these instigations a warranteds a rece repor from the governme countability office shows thathe orgazation receives an average of $500

million taxpaye dollars each year for other lis of business. money is fungible ane federal funds that plned parenthoo receives ultimately subsidize thr aboron ervices. given the allegations about planned parenthood's sale of tissue and organs fm aborted unborn children, it's opriat for cgresso pass h. 3134, the defund planned parethood acplacina one-yearoratorium on all federal funds while congrs conducts its investigation. no organization that performs divisi praices like abortion particularly in such a gruesome profitabl manner should receive -- manner, should receive taxpayer dollars and this legislation advances that principle. in addition, the examples of kermit gosnell's convictions for murdering children born alive at

his house of horrors and separate reports that unborn children may have been born alive or in tact prior to being sold to tissue collectors have exposed the need for strengthening the born alive infants protection act. the born alive infants protection act, which became law in 2002, extended critical legal protections to babies who were born alive after a failed abortion attempt. that bill passed the house judiciary committee with only two dissenting votes and was passed by the senate by unanimous consent. practitioners present at the time of birth to administer professional skilled care and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child.

the small but important step ensures the protection and preservation of precious newborn life by providing for criminal penalties when that life is lost as a result of negligence. these tiny, precious, vulnerable lives deserve the protection afforded all other persons under the law and this bill ensures that their lives are protected. madam speaker, i commend this rule and both the underlying bills to my colleagues for their support and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank the gentlewoman from north carolina, my good friend, dr. foxx, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i rise today in very strong opposition to h.r. 3134 and h.r. 3504 and a very strong

opposition to the underlying closed rule. . today the house should be debating a bill to keep the government opened before funding runs out at the end of the month. we have just six legislative days before there is a government shut down. six legislative days. instead of tackling this, we are once again debating another republican attack on women's health. in six legislative days the government might shut down and i'm worried because judging from recent events within the republican caucus, the right hand doesn't know what the extreme right hand is doing. they can't seem to get along with each other. i'm afraid yet there will be another catastrophe, everything will come to a halt, and the people that will suffer will be the people of this country that we are supposed to represent. madam speaker, in fact the republicans were in such a hurry to waste our time with this

destructive legislation that one of the bills we are considering, not 3504, had no hearings, one, none. no markup. and this is the first time we are seeing the bill. and no amendments by the way. nobody can offer an amendment, totally closed. whatever happened to regular order? this process, madam speaker, stinks and it is indefensible. of all the measures that have come before the rules committee, more than 75% have completely ignored regular order and were rushed to the floor without a legislative hearing and markup. denying the people's elected representatives the opportunity to hear the experts and teak up for their constituents. when you look at the politically motivated legislation that regularly comes before this body, i guess it's easy to see why. this is not how the people's house is supposed to work. and late last night the republican majority in the rules

committee took another short cut to a process called self-executing, and let them slip in an amendment offered by mrs. ellmers into today's legislation to redirect funding away from planned parenthood facilities. under regular order, this amendment would have required three waivers, three. it would require three waivers from the committee to be considered on the house floor. on top of that, the ellmers amendment would have also violated section 302-f of the congressional budget act which prohibits the consideration of legislation that exceeds a committee's allocation of budget authority. but the republican-controlled rules committee said, who cares. we are in charge. we don't care about the rules. we don't want to be fair. we don't want to be open. we don't want to be transparent. we are in charge. we can do whatever we want. this is just another attempt by the house majority to shut out debate on important issues and ignore the house rules when it's convenient for them. during this congress alone, 118 waivers have been granted.

115 of those waivers, 97%, have been for republicans. and instead of the house rules committee we should be known as the house break the rules committee. that's all the rules committee seems to do, it breaks rules and goes around rules and tries all kinds of trickery to be able to force legislation to the floor that limits debate and doesn't allow amendments -- members to offer amendments. this legislative process in this house has become a joke. it is shameful and this is not serious legislating. with one bill after another, republicans have repeatedly hurt our country's most vulnerable families, and these bills today are just the latest chapter. and this is nothing new. one of the first acts of the republican house majority in 2011 was to drive us to the brink of a government shut down over planned parenthood. in october of 2013, the republicans did shut down the government by insisting on defunding the affordable care

act. and now two years later they are right back to threatening a republican government shut down over planned parenthood. house res. h. 3134, the so-called defund planned parenthood act of 2015, is a bad nd a backward thinking bill. in the 114th congress, the house has already taken four anti-women's health votes, and at this sets the stage for us to take two additional votes to restrict access to women's health care. incredibly this is already twice the number of anti-women's health votes at this same point in the 113th and 112th congresses. this congress is not even half over. and in this republican congress, facts don't matter. we don't talk about facts. they are inconvenient and they are a nuisance, especially when they get in the way of their extremist political agenda. the fact is that planned parenthood plays a critical role

in protecting and providing access to critical health services for both women and men. one in five women has relied on a plant parenthood health center for care in her lifetime and plant parenthood serves 2.7 million patients each year. one of the most important statistics that my republican friends like to ignore is that more than 90% of what planned parenthood does nationally is preventive care. including cervical cancer screenings, breast cancer screenings, and family planning, not abortion services. i just come from a luncheon a few minutes ago where we were honoring individuals who were leaders in the cancer prevention field. people who have advocated that it is important for all of us to be able to get checkups on a regular basis in order to prevent cancer. and here we are about to vote on

a bill that if the republicans get their way would limit and would eliminate access to lifesaving cancer screenings for countless individuals across this country. what are you thinking? this is not the way we should be proceeding. and add to this fact the planned parenthood clinics are often one of the few affordable health care options available for many women. nearly 80% of women using planned parenthood clinics have incomes at or below 150% of poverty. it's easy to see why a majority of americans don't think federal funding should be eliminated. one recent poll, 63% of voters, including 72% of independents, do not agree with my republican friends that federal funding for planned parenthood should be eliminated. madam speaker, we have also heard very little from my friends on the other side of the aisle about the consequences that defunding plant parenthood would have for families across the country. one of the biggest myths

perpetrated by republicans is that the -- the idea that the nation's community health centers, which i love and adore and respect and support, could somehow magically pick up the slack overnight if planned parenthood is defunded. for the mfls low-income bem who defend on planned parenthood clinics, this scenario would mean the loss of affordable and accessible contraceptive services and counseling, as well as breast and cervical cancer screenings and testing. the idea that our community health centers could overnight suddenly step up and cover millions of new patients is simply wrong and shows a fundamental misunderstanding by republicans on how our country's health care system works. in fact, the good marcher institute recently found in 21% of counties with a planned parenthood health center, planned parenthood is the only safety net family planning provider. the report also states in a in -- that in 2/3 of the 491

counties in which they are located, planned parenthood health centers serve at least half of all women obtaining contraceptive care. 1/5 of the counties which they are located, planned parenthood sites are the sole safety net family planning center. this makes clear just how devastating it would be for these communities to recklessly cut funding it for these vital health services for the people who need them most. everyone here in this congress, every single one of us, with a snap of our fingers, could get health care. today's bills, republicans seem to be saying that for families who are poor or live in rural areas or who where this is the only option for preventive care and where they live, you are simply out of luck. talk about cruel. madam speaker, i have recent article from the health affairs blog entitled planned parenthood

community health septemberers and women's he health, getting the facts right. i quote. a claim that community health centers readily can absorb the loss of planned parenthood clinics accounts to a gross misrepresentation of what even the best community health centers in the country would be able to do where planned parenthood to lose over 40% of its operating revenues oversight knight as a result of the ban on federal funding, end quote. i ask unanimous consent to insert the full article in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: here are some more facts of the for every patient served by a community center today, nearly three residents of low-income communities remain without access to primary health care. by voting a sudden cutoff in funding, we would create an immediate health care access crisis for millions of women. placing enormous strain on community health centers and other providers. community health centers offer women's health services as part of a comprehensive primary care program. they simply cannot put their

other responsibilities aside. with so many of our nation's community health centers already struggling to meet the needs of our most vulnerable communities, the last thing we should be doing is trying to make their jobs harder. on top of all of this, senator mcconnell has already said that senate republicans do not have the votes to pass this bill and will never reach the president's desk. what are we doing here? this is not a rhetorical question. we are literally, as i said earlier, we are six legislative days away from another government shut down. and instead of talking about how we are going to keep the doors opened, how we are going to do what the people of the country have sent us here to do to keep government running, we are wasting time with this politically driven legislation that does nothing to make the country better. madam speaker, the other bill before us, h.r. 3504, is not a simple restatement of the current born alive law, by the way, which passed by a voice vote in 2002.

no, just so my colleagues understand, this bill fundamentally interferes with the sacred doctor-patient relationship and undermines doctor's clinical judgment and tells them how to provide medicine or else they will face criminal penalties. madam speaker, this bill is a solution in search of a problem. we already have strong federal and state laws that protect babies born alive. look, the bottom line is that these anti-women's health bills would limit women's access to safe, legal reproductive health care. congress should be governing responsibly and working to solve the real issues our country is facing. we should be focused on growing our economy, creating jobs. i think you may have forgotten that's an important priority of the american people because my friends never liked to mention the word jobs. but we ought to be focused on creating jobs. we ought to be protecting access to health care, increasing college affordability, and building a better future.

instead 30 conservative he house republicans have decided to take government funding hostage and that's what we are here for. the american people deserve bert. finally, let's be clear, let's all clear the air and be honest about one thing, the debate we are having said really -- today really isn't about the quality of care provided by planned parenthood. that's not what's at the heart of all this. this is an effort by my friends on the republican side to kind of pursue their agenda of criminalizing and outlawing abortion at every -- in every circumstance. many of my colleagues on the other side have been very vocal about the fact that they want to criminalize abortion even in cases of rape or incest. they would make it -- make a woman who is a victim of rape or incest a criminal. they would criminalize the doctors. that's what this is all about. trying to force their narrow agenda down the throats of the american people. i would say to my colleagues

that we ought to reject this and get down to the business of governing this country. this is not what we should be doing here today. this is an insult, i think, to women. this is an insult to the good people who work at planned parenthood, who provide excellent care to millions of people across this country. and quite frankly it's an insult to the american people that with six legislative days left before you shut the government down, this is what you choose to bring to the floor and not a bill to keep the government opened. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, in my colleagues would like to use parliamentary terms like regular order, self-execute, or waivers to hide from debate over the gruesome practices of abortionistses -- abortionists, that's their

prerogative. they ignore what one key planned parenthood abortionist said, quote, we have been very good at getting heart, lung, liver because we know that. so i'm not going to crush that part. i'm going to basically crush below. i'm going to crush above. and i'm going to see if i can get it all intact. republicans will continue to bring the truth to americans and prevent taxpayer dollars from going to organizations that dismember children. madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from alabama, mr. byrne. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama is recognized for one minute. mr. byrne: by now we have all seen the appalling videos which depict planned parenthood officials talking about how they crush babies in certain ways to preserve certain organs and then bargain over the price of those organs.

the loss of any human life is a tragedy. but the casual nature in which the planned parenthood officials talk about killing a baby is simply heartbreaking and appalling. it is unconscionable that any american can be that cold and callous. let me tell you about the planned parenthood clinic in my hometown of mobile, alabama. they were cited by the alabama department of health for performing two abortions on a 14-year-old girl in a span of four months without complying with state laws that require the reporting of possible sexual abuse. this is the type of organization we are talking about. congress cannot simply sit on the sidelines and wait for someone else to respond. these egregious action as require a response. madam speaker, i do not believe the federal government should be spending a single penny on planned parenthood. and h.r. 3134 would make that a reality. i urge my colleagues to support

this rule and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i just want to say to my colleague from north carolina, i'm not hiding behind procedural rules. in fact, the way that my republican friends have brought this bill to the floor, you won't allow us to debate amendments. we can't. you have stifled debate. so i guess i'd ask you, what are you afraid of? why can't we have a more open process on legislation that didn't even go through the committees of jurisdiction? you ought to open this place up, a little debate's not a bad thing. a little openness is a good thing. i just want to also, i would like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record the report by the subcommittee of oversight and investigation democratic members and staff, basically that refers to the heavily edited videos that my colleagues refer to and just read one line here. to date the committee has received no evidence, underline no evidence, to substantiate the allegations that planned parenthood is engaged in the sale of fetal tissue for profit.

furthermore, the committee's receive nod evidence to support the allegation that fetal tissue was procured without consent, that planned parenthood physicians altered the timing, method or procedure of an abortion solely for the purposes of obtaining fetal tissue, or that planned parenthood ysicians performed in tact dielation and evacuation in order to preserve fetal tissue for research. thus far the investigation has revealed that ppfa requires all affiliates to ensure compliance with all state and federal laws and that specific ppfa guidance requires affiliates to ensure the reimbursement for fetal tissue is limited to actual cause. so, these heavily ed edited videos -- edited videos that my friends keep referring to is a cover for what really is behind all of this and that is their attempt to criminalize and outlaw abortion in all circumstances. with that i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, the distinguished ranking member of the committee on rules, ms. slaughter.

the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for three minutes. ms. slaughter: thank you, madam speaker. and thank you to my colleague, mr. mcgovern, for yielding me the time. i rise today in defense of planned parenthood, an organization that for nearly 100 years has been the only accessible and affordable health care for millions of americans, men and women. and yet again we find ourselves debating a bill that has no chance of becoming law. which attacks women and their health care decisions, and distracts from what we should be doing, a budget to keep the government funded, which the majority shows no interest in moving forward. instead we are rehashing old bills that we have seen many times before. these republican broadsizeds fly in the face of millions of women across the country and undermine the health and well-being of poor and rural women who in most cases have no place else to turn

except planned paraphernaliahood for basic medical treatment -- parenthood for basic medical treatment. one in five american women has relied on planned parenthood health center for care in her lifetime. as my colleagues said, more than 90% of which is for preventive care. cervical cancer screenings, breast cancer screenings and even hisk counseling. there is no other -- h.i.v. counseling. there is no other medical procedure so furiously debated. do we spend years here debating theirr men can get during reproductive years? maybe we should do that because we've cloaked ourselves in the medical field so we can make those priceless decisions that people should make for themselves. do we threaten to shut down the government over access to viagra? no. we don't. and this week i received an email from a local planned parenthood affiliate about a woman, was 19 years old, went to planned parenthood to get a prescription for birth control.

during a routine screening, the doctor found a cluster of abnormal cells that could have turned into life-threatening cancer. the woman wrote, quote, early detection and treatment allowed me later in life to have a healthy baby who is the light of my life. planned parenthood is the provider i know and trust. why should politicians tell anyone where they can and cannot go for care? planned parenthood was there for me when i needed affordable quality health care and i don't know what i'd have done without their service, end quote. that's what's at stake. in spite of these pleas, the republicans continue their obsess with -- obsession with attacking women's health. i'd think by now they would know better, in cooping the most personal decisions of a woman's lifetime. legislatures across the country, including this one, waste valuable time pretending to be doctors instead of doing their jobs. legislators do not spontaneously become medical professionals upon their elections.

these constitutionally protected decisions are for women with the advice of their doctors, their family and anyone she wants to consult, a priest, rabbi or pastor. as i had to say to a young man once facing some pretty awful decisions, as he waits to find out what decision would be made, i wouldn't want him to have to say, may i have 30 seconds more? or even less. mr. mcgovern: i yield the gentlelady 30 seconds. ms. slaughter: when terrible decisions are to be made between medical personnel and patients, i don't want anybody to have to say, i have to wait until ms. slaughter gets here because congress has the last word in whether we live or die. i yield can yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time -- i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. hudson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for one minute. mr. hudson: madam speaker, this debate is not about any one organization that receives tax

dollars. this isn't about republicans versus democrats. indeed, it's not even about pro-life versus pro-choice. this issue before us today, madam speaker, is about defending the most vulnerable among us. it is about a fundamental question, will we allow and indeed give the people's money to an organization that takes a tiny baby outside the womb, with a beating heart, with lungs that function, and take a scalpel and cut open the head so that the brain can be extracted and sold for profit? that's gruesome, i'm sorry, but watch the video. or are we going to say, let's suspend the funding to this organization while we investigate? that's a reasonable position. any organization that receives federal funds, that's being investigated for breaking the law, ought to have their funds suspended. my wife and irexpecting our first child in a matter of -- and i are expecting our first

child in a matter of days. i would ask my colleagues, let's support this legislation and make sure that no baby is ever again cut into pieces and sold for scrap parts in this country. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, at this point i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, a member of the committee on energy and commerce, ms. matsui. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. matsui: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i rise in strong opposition to the rule and to stand with millions of american women and men who receive essential health services from planned parenthood. these attacks against planned parenthood threaten access to health care across this country, particularly for low income women and men who already face barriers to access. for many of our nation's underserved populations, planned parenthood is the only source for vital services such as

contraceptive services and counseling and breast and cervical cancer screening. if the majority succeeds in its effort to defund planned parenthood, millions of americans will be stripped of access to health care, in turn creating hardships for american families. more troubling still is a majority's willingness to shut down the government in order to deny health care to millions of women. women's health should not be used as a bargaining chip for political messaging. i urge my colleagues to put aside partisan politics driven by purposefully misleelanding videos. attack -- misleading videos. attacking planned parenthood is a dangerous distraction to real issues facing american women and families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from utah, mrs. love. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from utah is recognized for one minute. mrs. love: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 3134,

to defund planned parenthood, and h.r. 3504, which requires that babies born alive during abortions get the same medical treatment as any other child. it is crucial that we stand for those who cannot speak for themselves. the unborn. these bills are critical to curtail the horrific practices that include harvesting fetal tissue while babies are still alive. we as americans, we value human life. we're fighting terrorists in iran because we value the life -- lives of people. fighting for the unborn is no different. i demand a full investigation into planned parenthood's donation of fetal tissue and the removal of taxpayer funding for the organization. my colleagues will try to distract, distort and divide us into thinking this is all about women's health issues. this is in fact about saving american lives. let me remind my colleagues that

black americans make up 12% of the population and the fetuses that are being aborted make up 78% of what's -- of who's being aborted. we must act to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. i know my job. please do yours. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from vermont is recognized for one minute. mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. there's two issues that are very contentious. abortion and fetal research. i support the right of a woman to choose. i support medical research that's legal under our laws so we can get cures to diseases like alzheimer's and diabetes. i also respect those who disagree with me. but this bill is terrible. here's why. it's unfair to women who are not part of this debate, whose access to planned parenthood is about getting preventive health care, 16,000 women in our state.

and the second reason, this bill as designed is destructive to the institution we represent. here's how it's designed. one, take the money away, then investigate. in a fair society we do it the opposite way. second, it eliminates access to care to innocent people who have nothing to do with this. as i mentioned, 16,000 in vermont. three, it's a prelude to the shutdown, resorting to a tactic that unless you get your way, we're shutting down the entire government. and four, it's part of the dump the speaker campaign, as though if the speaker resists a shutdown, he should be -- his job should be taken away. bad for women, bad for the institution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. carter: thank you. madam speaker, i stand today in support of the innocent and the unborn.

i strongly believe now is the time for congress to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. the videos that have been released ex posed -- expose the appalling acts. these are despicable acts on par with the sickest of criminals behind bars and that's exactly where these people belong. in prison, behind bars. these videos have given everyone insight into the inexcusable and horrific culture at planned parenthood. taxpayer funds should never be used to fund or offset the costs of providing abortions and it is especially unacceptable in the illegal practices like the selling and profiting from fetal tissue. we must seek justice. i urge federal law enforcement to execute a full criminal investigation into these alleged actions by planned parenthood. these two bills being debated today, of which i'm a co-sponsor of the necessary next steps, and i urge my colleagues to support

this legislation and to support life. madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, at this time it's my privilege to yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. kildee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute. mr. kildee: thank you, madam speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. let's be clear. this is not a debate about abortion. there are different points of view on that question. but it's a settled question by the u.s. supreme court. so those who want to make this about something that it's not need to look at the legislation that they're supporting. this is about whether or not families have access through planned parenthood to preventive health care, to life-saving cancer screenings, to basic health care that ought to be available in every possible way. this bill would have an extreme and devastating impact on access to those fundamental services

that planned parenthood provides. . here we are seven legislative days before this government shuts down. what is preoccupying the floor of the house of representatives today? an ideological debate that everyone on both sides of the aisle acknowledges will not become law, much acknowledges it will not become law. but we are taking time to pander to some of the voices that simply oppose women's health care choices instead of taking up the questions that the american people sent us here to do. where's the budget? where are the budget negotiations? where is the discussion about roads and bridges? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman reserves. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from alabama, mrs. roby. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from alabama for one minute. mrs. roby: thank you, madam

speaker. no taxpayer should be forced to fund an organization that aborts more than 350,000 unborn babies every year. this is a commonsense truth that even pro-abortion activists have a hard time arguing. guess what? they changed the argument. they pretend that abortion doesn't exist and planned parenthood is the only place where low-income women can get health care. taking away taxpayer funding from planned parenthood means denying women access to health care, they say. that's untrue and anybody spreading that should be ashamed. there are more than 13,000 federally qualified rural health centers throughout this country offering low cost health care to women. they outnumber planned parenthood clinics 20-1. if this was really about making sure women had access to health care, we could all agree right now that supporting these community health septemberers is the right thing to do. that's -- centers is the right thing to dofment that's not what this is about. community health centers don't

perform abortion. planned parenthood does. that's what this is about. it's about preserving a pipeline of funding to the nation's largest abortion provider. we all get this. so let's drop the phony women's health charade. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields. the gentlelady from north carolina reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized for one minute. i rise in op -- off significance to this rule and underlying -- opposition to this rule and underlying bill. they have declared war on the health and well-being of millions of women. plant parenthood serves 2.7 million americans every year. with lifesaving services like pap tests, breast exams, screenings for sexually transmitted infections.

for many low-income families, planned parenthood is their only option. the majority claims that other clinics can take up the slack, but just listen to dr. defrancisco, the president of the american congress of ob-gyn. i quote. if planned parenthood went away there are a good number of patients just in my service area that longer will have a doctor. if they start calling my office, it's going to be we could take you, but it might be two, three months down the road. if they call other places it might be, we can't even take you. this bill creates chaos. in that chaos, people's lives will be put at risk. this bill is spiteful. it's mean-spirited, and it is cruel. it tells millions of low-income americans forget your health. you can just die. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. delauro: i urge my colleagues to vote against this

bill. search the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, there are many more options for women's health care than the discredited abortion provider planned parenthood. while planned parenthood only approximately 665 clinics, federally qualified health centers and rural health septemberers, r.h.c.s, provide over 13,000 publicly supported locations providing alternatives for women's health care. this means there are 20 federally funded comprehensive care clinics for every one planned parenthood. this bill does not change the availability of funds for women's health, it simply establishes a safeguard so that the nation's largest abortion chain is not the one providing such services. madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia, mr. loudermilk. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is

recognized for one minute. mr. loudermilk: thank you, madam speaker. there comes a time when we must face the truth regardless of how disgusting or offensive that truth is. as much as we dislike where we are, and the shame, harvesting of baby parts has brought on our ones who must the face this truth and take action. some who oppose this bill and other actions as congress may take state defunding this or other organizations will not completely stop these horrific acts. and that may be true. did our involvement in world war ii against hitler end anti-semitism? no, it didn't. did our government's decision to take out osama bin laden end terrorism? no, it didn't. but how many innocent lives were spared because we did take action? the question before us is not whether our actions will stop this evil, but if this government will continue to fund it, sanction it, and tolerate it. for years william will burstforce fought against evil slimbry and he challenged his

countrymen with these words, you may choose to look the other bayway but you can never say you did not know. if you know the truth, which we do, and decide not to respond we'll in part share the blame, spot, and the judgment. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for one minute. mrs. maloney: i rise in opposition. mr. speaker, these bills today are the direct result of a series of videos that have been found to be purposefully misleading. alleged misdeeds that never happened. that will result in the punishment of millions of women who have absolutely nothing to do with it. in many areas of this country, planned parenthood clinics are one of the few affordable health care options for women. during the senate debate on defunding, a letter was introduced from california's community health centers, stating in no uncertain terms

that defunding the planned parenthood clinics would place untenable stress on the community health care providers. but our republican colleagues are indifferent to the experts. truth as usual is the first casualty when they wage their cultural wars. and all that matters is the heater, their bizarre can -- kabuki theater. i urge my colleagues to vote no on the rule and underlying rules. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back of the the gentlewoman reserves, the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield six minutes to the gentlelady from new jersey, mr. smith. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for six minutes. mr. smith: i thank virginia foxx who is a tremendous leader for life and great leader in this country for yielding. mr. mcgovern, you said we are wasting our time. mr. kildee talked about pandering which i think is an insult. yes or no, have you watched the

videos? mr. mcgovern: yes. mr. smith: you have. ok. it's disappointing that you are not moved to compassion over the terrible inhumanity displayed on those videos by the planned parenthood personnel. mr. speaker, human dismemberment is a painful and absolutely frightening way for anyone to die but in planned parenthood clinics across the country, such violence against children is commonplace. subsidized by half a billion dollars annually, planned parenthood kills a baby every two mince. snuffing out the lives of over seven million infants since 1973. a staggering loss of life. a staggering loss of children. madam speaker, now because of undercover videos by the center for medical progress, we know planned parenthood is also trafficking in baby parts, turning babies into human guinea pigs while making the abortion

industry even richer than before. although much of the media continues to ignore this scandal, planned parenthood has crafted a facade of care and compassion, has been shredded. caught on tape planned parenthood's top leadership, not interns or lower level employees, show callous disregard for children's lives while gleefully calculating the financial gain. which begs the question, do americans really know what horrors are done to children in planned parenthood clinics? have congressional colleagues, has president obama watched the videos yet? in one clip dr. nucatola, senior director of planned parenthood federation of america's services and late term abortionist herself says on camera, we have been getting very good at getting heart, lung, liver because we know that i'm not going to crush that part. i am ' going to basically crush

below. i'm going to crush above. and i'm going to see if i can get it all intact. i would say a lot of people want liver. for that reason most providers will do this gays under ultrasound guidance so they will know where they are putting their forceps. in other words, crush the baby to death but do it in a way that preserves organs and body parts for sale. planned parenthood's medical directors counsel drezz appears on the video talking about utilizing quote, less crunchy abortion methods. again, to preserve body parts. regarding the price tag for baby body parts, she says, let me just figure out what others are getting and if this isn't is in the ballpark, it's fine. if it's still low we can bump it up, that is the price. i want a lamborghini she says. planned parenthood national director for the consortium of

abortions says we are just trying to figure out as an industry, abortion is an industry, and i continue to quote her, how we are going to manage remuneration because the headlines would be a disaster. concern for making money and avoiding bad press, no concern whatsoever for the child vick ifment victim. a biotech company that partners with planned parenthood says some women undergoing abortion did not give consent for these baby body parts to be trafficked. she says on the video that pregnancy tests for potential pregnancies, they are potential specimens. they think of it as a way of getting more specimens. it's taking advantage of the opportunity. donald also says how her supervisor told her to cut through the face of a baby in order to get brain tissue. quote, she gave me the scissors

and told me that i had to cut down the middle of the face. i can't even describe what that feels like, she says on tape. h.r. 3134 made in order under this rule authored by an extraordinarily caring and compassionate member of congress, dianne black, places a year-long moratorium on funding for planned parenthood and redirects withheld moneys to other facilities that provide women's health. mr. speaker, the videos have also brought into sharp focus the fact that some babies actually survive abortions. the vice president and medical director of planned parenthood's rocky mountains confesses sometimes we get, if someone delivers before we get to see them for their procedure, then the babies are intact. that means born alive. that means born alive. the fetus just fell out, she says. it just fell out. the baby fell out. what happens to that baby?

tragically we know what happens. they are killed and some of their organs are stolen. so the second bill made in order by the rule, the born alive abortion survivors protection act, authored by pro-life champion, trent franks, simply says any child who survives an abortion must be given the same care as any other premature baby born at the same gestational age. the new bill builds on the landmark born alive act of 2002 authored by steve chabot by adding important enforcement provisions. i would remind my colleagues it was just two years ago the infamous philadelphia abortionist, kermit gosnell, was convicted of killing children as well as women in thinks clinics, but children who were born alive after an attempted abortion. the grand jury report describes his practice, i read the entire report, you ought to read it as well, gosnell had a simple solution for unwanted babies he delivered. he killed them. he didn't call it that.

he called it ensuring fetal demise. that way he ensured -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. smith: support these two bills. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: let me just make three -- state three facts here. we know these videos that have been mentioned have been selectively edited. we know for a fact that 90% of what planned parenthood does is preventive care, including screens for cervical cancer, nothing to do with abortion. we know for a fact because it is the law that no taxpayer dollars can be used to pay for abortion. having said that i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from oregon, ms. bonamici. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman oregon is recognized for one minute. ms. bonamici: i rise in opposition to the rule and underlying bills. this closed rule makes in order misguided legislation that would seriously limit access to crucial health care services like cancer screenings and limit access to contraception that

would prevent unwanted pregnancies, we are talking about defunding planned parenthood? how counterproductive. in my home state of oregon, more than 72,000 patients were served by planned parenthood in 2013 alone. we are talking about real women and men who receive compassionate, preventive care. . i heard from oregonians like stacy who got a life saving cancer screening when she had no insurance. it is unfortunate that the house is using its limited time to debate legislation that harms women, but it's down right irresponsible to even consider shutting down the government over access to these vital services. there is no evidence that planned parenthood has broken any laws. we've seen proposals like this before. it's time to end these attacks on women's constitutional reproductive rights. i urge my colleagues to reject this rule and other legislation that limits access to vital health care services and i yield back the balance of my time.

thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. my colleagues have asked for an investigation into the center for medical progress which released these videos. the center for medical progress does not receive half a billion this taxpayer dollars every year. -- billion in taxpayer dollars every year. planned parenthood does. it's the role of congress to exercise oversight on those who receive taxpayer dollars. it is also appropriate for congress to cease funding a scandal-ridden organization. it's extremely interesting to hear my colleagues across the aisle talk about investigating the creators of these videos. if only there was such enthusiasm for oversight on other issues such as obamacare implementation, immigration executive orders and hillary clinton's refusal to share her

actions on benghazi. madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: all right. madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from texas, a member of the committee on the judiciary, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. jackson scrax jackson madam speaker, i ask -- ms. jackson lee: madam speaker, i ask to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: i would not be here on the floor to lend suspicion to the faith beliefs of anyone. but as evidenced by what we've been hearing for our friends on the other side of the aisle, this is not but a politically charged debate and an undermining of women's health care. we made it very clear in the judiciary committee that roe v. wade is the law of the land tpwhofmente that because a texas supreme court in 2014 and 2015 rolled back the texas law that was going to close a number of clinics evidencing and providing

for women's health care. planned parenthood provides for 378,000 pap tests, 487,000 breast exams, 87,000 women found out they had cancer through planned parenthood. as it relates to the fetal tissue, we know that there are laws in place that do not allow the sale of such. but we also know the fetal tissue research generated spinal cord, neurological research and cures. therefore, he will he -- therefore, let me say to my colleagues, the law of the land is roe v. wade. this is a protracted political fight and i'd only say, ask the person who filmed these particular videos, he stole the identity of his high school classmate to do this underhanded work and he pled the fifth amendment. that shows you that this is a political effort. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: jort. -- the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized.

mr. mcgovern: can i inquire of the gentlelady from north carolina how many speakers she has on her side? ms. foxx: madam speaker, we were expecting one more speaker that we were trying to accommodate. however, if the gentleman is prepared to close, then we will do our best to do that also. mr. mcgovern: i think i will close for our side then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: first of all, madam speaker, i'm going to urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question. and if we do, i will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up legislation that would treat wildfires like similar major natural disasters and eliminate the need to transfer funds from forest management and conservation programs for fire suppression. it is time to make commonsense changes to the federal wildfire budget and, madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the record along with extraneous material prior to the vote on the previous question. madam speaker, the bills that the rule will make in order,

that are before us today, these bills, and others, these are ongoing attacks that are part of the republican drum beat for a government shutdown over women's health care choices. it isn't enough to attack women's health. republicans are now willing to take down the entire federal government in their political attacks. as i mentioned at the outset, and my opening statement, the facts are the facts. and know for some of my colleagues they're inconvenient and they like to avoid talking about them. but the reality is that these so videos that my colleagues are referring to have been selectively edited. we also know that 90% of what planned parenthood does is preventive care. cervical cancer screenings, important life-saving procedures that benefit women and they do preventive care that benefits men as well. it's also important for my colleagues to realize that there

are no federal funds, no taxpayer dollars that go to fund abortion. that is illegal. that is the law of the land. that is the hyde amendment. and to shut down these important preventive health care services, to kind of advance this agenda that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have, which is to criminalize abortion under all circumstances, including many of my colleagues advocate no exceptions for rape or incest. a young girl who was victim of rape or incest would be a criminal if she had an abortion. this is all about taking away a woman's right to choose. that's what this is all about. planned parenthood happens to be the pawn, the latest pawn in this debate. it's interesting, i watched this republican debate last night. it was really quite entertaining. i heard donald trump and marco rubio and ted cruz say they would be open to putting civil rights activists -- activist rosa parks on the $10 billion.

but republicans might be surprised to learn that rosa parks sat on the national board of planned parenthood federation of america. the organization that my republican friends, including the people who invoked her name last night, you know, are now trying to defund. this is about preserving access to good quality health care. and i really regret the fact that this has become such a political wedge issue in this congress. but i get it. i know where my colleagues are coming from. but that you would take up the time of this house to do this, which the senate won't take up and which the president wouldn't sign even if they did, at a time when we have six legislative days left before the federal government shuts down, i don't know what my colleagues are thinking. part of what your job is is to keep this government running. and instead of doing that, we are doing these right wing message bills that don't even go

through regular order, that committees of jurisdiction don't even have a chance to consider, when every member, republican and democrat, are told, you can't even amend any of this stuff. no matter what kind of idea you have. this whole process is disgraceful. we need to get our priorities in order here. we ought to protect women's health care services. we ought not to be defunding an organization like planned parenthood which does good work all across this country. and we ought to be bringing a bill to the floor to keep this government running. with that, madam speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote no and defeat the previous question and vote no on the rule and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. last evening, when i spoke on this legislation and this rule in the rules committee, i mentioned that this is a very emotional issue for those of us who value life so much. one of my colleagues has already

spoken to the fundamental issue of life. we always should have time to talk about our declaration of independence and our constitution. and particularly as it relates to this issue, it's the declaration of independence which says, we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal, that they're undowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. madam speaker, that's what we're talking about here today. we're talking about what our government should be doing in

the light of knowing that the most vulnerable among us are withoutstroyed and that ife there is nothing else. there are few things our colleagues keep saying -- a few things our colleagues keep saying, there are a few things that are more important for us to be debating today. madam speaker, i would purport that there are few things more important than this debate over the trafficking of hearts and other body parts of unborn children. some of whom may have been born alive. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that this legislation is part of a war on women. but in reality it's designed to stop the war on children that is going on in abortion facilities

across this country. large majorities of americans believe their tax dollars should not go to fund abortions. they felt this way even before learning that during those abortions children are dismembered and sold piece by piece. it's unfathomable that we have to debate stopping the provisions of tax dollars to organizations participating in such activities. it's also unbelievable that we do not immediately pass, by unanimous consent, legislation ensuring that children born alive, breathing and crying, like each of us was on our first day outside the womb, deserve the same medical care that any child born in a hospital would receive. what is heartening in the face

of this contentious debate is the principle that the truth lways comes out. abortionists can no longer hide in the dark back rooms of their facilities and sell unborn children piece by piece, under an illusion that no one will ever know their crimes. our debate today and the videos that have been released have shattered that darkins and exposed the callousness of the abortion industry towards life and the consequences of accepting abortion on demand as acceptable. both of these bills, the defund planned parenthood act of 2015, and the born alive abortion survivors protection act, contain commonsense provisions addressing the barbaric actions that have come to light in the abortion industry. and i commend the underlying bills in this rule, providing fo

plus upcoming visit to the u.s. and we have live coverage in washington. and wednesday, september 23, the pope will visit the white house. it will be followed by a meeting with president obama and on thursday, september 24, the pope makes history on capitol hill, becoming the first pontiff to address the house and the senate during a joint meeting. follow all of our live coverage of the pope process toric visit to washington. general loretta lynch will speak at the congressional black caucus legislation later today hosted by congressman john conyers with a focus on criminal justice reform and policing in minority communities.that is live on c-span two at 11:00 a.m. eastern.