I will work with Elijah Cummings and figure out the best course on what to do with these videos but just caution to members, that it is a bit of a stretch to say that i have done some conclusive investigation on all the actions of planned parenthood. Did i look at the finances and have a hearing specifically as to the revenue portion and how they spend . Yes. Was there any wrongdoing . I didnt find any. But i do think its a legitimate question for all of us, why do we send money to an organization where the revenues exceed their expenses by 127 million . Doesnt sound like an organization that needs to be supplemented by taxpayer dollars . That was my point. Happy to yield. I just want to ask the representative, whether or not you have any evidence whatsoever that planned parenthood has broken the law in any way . I think, i think some of the video that has been out there, the rumors that have been swirling, some of the testimony that weve heard causes a lot of people to legitimately as
Further. You said that you found out in october that your attorneys met with the state department i believe it was in august. Now, from that time you said you turned over everything and that your lawyers went through this, and i believe it was in november after finding out in october that they had reviewed all these in two years . But your attorneys you must he some of the fastest reading attorneys in the world to go through that. I know youve got a group of them setting behind you but how many attorneys does it take to go through 65,000 emails in two months . Well, first of all, the process to provide information to the congress with respect to benghazi started before i left the state department. There was a concerted effort to gather up any information that might be responsetive are youtling me you had a approve server at that them . I know that jive i they were gathering emails you had to tell them you had a private server. The server is not the point. Its the account. I made its pr
People have been physically harmed. I have a friend who lost a daughter on the table of an abortioness. There are ramifications and it does hurt women. Doctor, the 2009 National Abortion federation textbook on comprehensive abortion care states that some patients or clinicians prefer initiating the abortion procedure with a nonliving fetus for emotional reasons or to avoid the problem of a ran ttransiently living ne. What in plain english are they referring to in this sanitized statement . They are referring to turn your microphone on. I have to remember that microphone. They are referring to bringing about a fetal death prior to initiating the procedure. You can do that a couple of ways. One is through the use of what was on that video. And another is through use of potassium chloride. Potassium chloride is a more dangerous drug and it is much more difficult to administer effectively to cause fetal death. By inject iin ining gigoxin, yo cause a fetal death and that obviates the proble
Parenthood provides. I thank you for your testimony and i thank the chairman for their time. There are six minutes remaining in this vote, so the committee will stand in recess and reconvene immediately after the votes. The House Judiciary Committee is taking a break now. The committee looking at the operations of planned parenthood today. And as the hearing today chairman Bob Goodlatte and congressman john conyers paid tribute to congressman edwards who n california who has died. While recess is in place, well show their opening statements. They include, of course, comments about planned parenthood. Good afternoon. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on planned parenthood exposed, examining abortion procedures and medical iktings at the nations largest Abortion Provider. And ill begin with my openings statement. Before i go to the statement on that id like to take a moment to remember the life of former congressman William Donelan don edwards who passed away this month at the
Im proud to have served at the state department, and i was honored to work for secretary clinton and alongside distinguished diplomats and Foreign Service officers. I appreciated the time of both the members and Committee Staff today and i answered all their questions to the best of my ability. And with that, ill be making no further comments. Thank you. Good to see you. We have a situation where we have had mr. Mccarthy, congressman mccarthy, make it clear what this is all about. We then, of course, have the handpicked member of the republican staff to affirm what mr. Mccarthy had already stated. We then have congressman hannah to reaffirm all of it. But even if we wanted to put words to the side, the question becomes weve been asked to not listen to the words of mccarthy, not listen to the words of hannah but look at the actions of the committee. And this morning, again, we have a situation where it is clear that when we look at the actions, calling ms. Abedin in, letting the press k