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joining me now is congresswoman gwen moore of wisconsin. to be with you here, reverend. >> komen says this was not a political decision. what do you think, congresswoman? >> you know, it is really tragic because it does appear to fold into so many other political efforts to defund planned parenthood. in recent -- this particular congress when republicans have been in charge of the house of representatives. and just let me say, 200,000 women will be diagnosed with cancer this year. 40,000 of them will die which is one of the reasons that it was so important to have this relationship between komen and planned parenthood. planned parenthood does 4 million breast exams each year. 170,000 of them were made possible through the komen foundation. and i tell you, 750,000 women every year sort of hesitate and are sent to seek further treatment so that they -- because they might have breast cancer. this is a life-saving exam. let me tell you, breast cancer is second only to skin cancer in women. and this is a very, very dangerous partisan political p

registration and i have to say two members of the congressional black caucus, keith ellison and gwen moore, introduced just in november, a bill that would protect those rights and restore same-day registration and also same-day voter registration and improve the voter access to -- voter access protection act is the name of the legislation and the laws that curtail early voting and eliminate same-day registration. some of these laws intimidate voter registration groups and the states are imposing strict i.d. requirements, creating barriers requiring getting the i.d. and barriers to students voting where they attend school. . tonight i'm going to be joined by several members including sheila jackson lee from texas to again begin to raise the country's awareness of some of the voting restrictions that are being put in place across this country and to let the public know that the congressional black caucus, just as we did last year, go across the country to raise the country's awareness of the need for jobs and actually having job fairs where we actually put people to work in several cities ac