arizona republican congressman trent frank sponsored the bill with support from antiabortion rights groups. >> unborn children have the capacity to experience pain by 20 weeks and likely substantially earlier. >> reporter: prorights groups say there is no medical evidence to support that claim. >> it is based on radical ideology, rather than sound science. >> reporter: the vote is putting lawmakers on the record on abortion just before an election. groups are keeping score. >> it is important for the congress to vote on this bill and to get a strong majority in support of reversing the current policy in our nation's capital. >> reporter: the constitution gives congress the authority to govern what happens in the capital city. but the vote had national implications. >> they are aiming for you. it is a national campaign. >> reporter: in a 2000 study the cdc reported no abortions were performed in washington, d.c. after 20 weeks, despite it being legal. cbs news, washington. >>> that bill needed a two-thirds majority in order to pass the house. >>> president obama has declared washington, d.c

was being picked on and bullied after trent franks enraged district leaders with his idea. >> mr. speaker, if we cannot find the will or the courage to protect human babies from being tortured, then what claim on human compassion remains to us? what we are doing to babies is real, mr. speaker. it is barbaric in the purest sense of the word. >> we need to remember that this bill targets only the district of columbia which some on the other side of the aisle like to treat like a colony. >> they have picked a fight they do not want and cannot win. >> we will be speaking more with delegate eleanor holmes norton live at the -- during the 8:00 hour about this particular issue. >>> other stories making headlines actually horrific scene in calvert county. police are investigating it as a murder-suicide. they believe 32-year-old frank hayward killed his wife and two- year-old daughter and critically injured his 12-year- old son before setting the house on fire and then taking his open life. authorities say several guns were found inside the house and they were used to carry out the crimes.

we had representative trent frank, who cosponsored that bill, to outlaw abortion at 20 weeks -- excuse me -- yes 20 week abortion ban. he just came out justice said we should all be honored that ache sin in congress. not a single republican called for him to resign from the race, which is baldly political and about their own elections, called for him to resign from congress. nor has a single republican or speaker john boehner, done anythingo remove him from the science committee he sits on. let's be realistic. he does represent the viewpoint of the platform, of several bill that is they put forward in this congress nobody called for him to go. it's only about their election. they are trying to put him in a corner, paint him as a lone wolf. he is the leader of the pack. >> you are taking that quote and trying to run with it and paint everybody that they agree with him. >> are we lunning on a platform which have been says a person at the moment that the egg and t sperm are joined, there a person there so there could be no abortion under any circumstances? not even rape and incest. >> the

. >> arizona republican, trent frank, outraged leaders to ban abortions for d.c. women, saying he wanted to protect the rights of the innocent who could pain in the 20th week of pregnancy. a lot of democrats were infuriated as well. >> this bill is an assault on decent si and common sense. and it adds to the battery of weapons being used by our republican colleagues. >> the abortion issue always brings out controversy on both sides. the defeated bill would have banned abortion, even if the woman's health was in jeopardy and in cases of rape or incest. >> there's a special tool to squeeze that little baby's head and crush it out and pull it out. who of us could watch such a procedure? who of us could conduct such a procedure? >> the district found allies across the country. and lawmakers who agreed d.c. was being picked on and bullied. >> we also need to remember this bill targets only the district of columbia, which some on the other side of the aisle like to treat like a colony. >> the office of democratic, denny released a statement saying republicans are playin

i want to bring in congressman trent franks. with a mass shooting not long ago and the tragic shooting that claimed six lives involving congress woman gabrielle giffords. what is your reaction to what we heard so far. >> my first reaction is to try to express concern and condolences is or just comforting words to those people going through this situation right now, who have family member that are victims are it. it is so very easy for all of us that observe these things to forget how horrifying and heartbreaking this can be to the the people on the ground and have family members in the midst of all of it. that said, a great tragedy here. we don't know the motivations or what prompted this. one thing we do know, whether it is a shooting or bomb or anything that hurts innocent people it first has to overcome any moral impulse to protect or to recognize the intrinsic life of the other person. in other words, this whole notion in our society where we are beginning to diminish our respect for innocent human life and founding fathers

course had most recently a five courageous legislators, congresswoman michele bachmann, lee gomer, trent franks joined forces to last a series of questions we hope to begin, namely what is going on with the policies that are being adopted by the obama administration that brings it seems ever more into alignment with the desires, goals of the muslim brotherhood. and to what extent, if at all are individuals who either are in the government's employee or being used as advisors by the government or as liaisons to the muslim american community contributing to the adoption of such policies? as they say, few people have contributed more to the debate that we need on those and am very pleased to say as a result and part, and his leadership that battle is now being joined, across america we are finding people awakening to a very real problem, not from all muslim spirit i'll be clear about that and i'm sure andy will as well. those who seek to impose on the rest of us in to the extent that this issue as i hope that will prepare forward be more of a focus of national debate and perhaps a decisive factor

also of course have most recently five courageous legislatures, congresswoman michele bachmann, trent franks louis komar at anti-muni join forces to as the sorts of questions we hope to begin to address with the world today. namely, what is going on with the policies being increasingly adopt it by the administration that are never seems ever more into alignment with the desires, ambitions, both of the muslim brotherhood and to what extent, if at all our individuals who either are in the government employer are being used to as advisors by the government or as liaisons to the muslim american community contributed to the adoption of such policies. as they say, few people have contributed more to the debate that we need on that and i'm very pleased to say as a result of anti-censorship, but that it was now being joined. across america we are finding people awakening to a very real problem. not from all muslims. let me be clear about that. but from those in sharia imposed on the rest of us on the extent that this issue at the i hope it does from here forward become more of a focus of national de

congressman lanching forward of oklahoma, congresswoman blackburn of tennessee and congressman trent franks of arizona. congressman forwarden berry and congressman schmidt of ohio. i want to thank them and congressman fortenberry and congresswoman gohmert of texas. this is an important night and we thank priests for life of 20 years for standing firm for the cause of the unborn. we will get there yet. thank you, father frank. and mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from minnesota for a motion. mrs. bachmann: i make a motion that this body do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house returns here on c-span. >> tonight, at the house arms services committee looks at the effect of sequestration on the defense budget. house members' debate extending bush era tax cuts. and kevin mccarthy talks about the 2012 campaign season. that you carry -- ashton carter said budget cuts could le

i said to my friend trent frank, gee, the u.s. attorney handling that, i believe it was quoted in the newspaper, i believe the dallas news, that he said there was no politics involved in those dismissals because there was just no case there. there was no evidence to support it. well i happen to have read that "dallas morning news" report an i happened to have read the quotes from that acting u.s. attorney. and yes he did say that, no, it was a local decision, politics weren't involved. but that is not what he said, and he noted the evidence wasn't there, which is entirely different, since he was not under penalty of potential jail when he spoke to a reporter, that he was under potential penalty of jail if you ever commit a fraud upon a court by not giving all the information or misrepresenting to a judge or tricking a judge by not being truthful, you can be looking at jail time. lawyers before me knew that. they tnt care about politics, but i cared about truth. i cared about it in the bush administration, so when we found out that