Not what we go for, to ensure babies born alive in such instances are given necessary medical care to house passed hr 3504, the born alive some abortion survivors protection act which requires baby surviving an abortion be given the same treatment and care that would be given to any child naturally born premature at the same age and impose criminal penalties at the federal level to prevent the killing of innocents human babies born alive. Moreover, these videos indicate abortion practitioners may have adopted new abortion procedures to avoid the risk of violating a partialbirth abortion ban act. In the 1st video the senior director of medical services at planned Parenthood Federation of america stated that, quote the federal abortion ban is a law, and laws are up to interpretation,. Todays hearing is intended to explore what interpretations have arisen since the laws passage. I look forward to listening to our witnesses here today, and it is my pleasure to recognize the Ranking Member
Approved beneficiaries of their family members were not able to actually take advantage of it and come to the United States because of the numerical limits on family based immigration every year. Continued to deteriorate. As we have had requests from other stake holders to take another look at that, my leadership would agree to take another look at the program. They have agreed to consider it. You have a request and im sure you should consider it. That is a problematic to do business. Were increasing number of refugees for syria and i think that is the appropriate way to openly and directly deal with this. The parole system was never designed to be used in this fashion as i understand the law. With regard to resettlement, i guess, mr. Chair, does that follow within your area . Yes, it does. And general, i believe some sort of consultation with communities about a desire to resettle a number of people in their community. What is your policy on that, and can you assure us any community t
The video that is part of the testimony that was previously stricken from the record be made part of the record. All those in favor, those opposed . The ayes habit and have it and the video is made part of the record. Gentle man is now recognized for his question. Doubled in from california is recognized for five minutes. You are next. Do you want to pass . The gentleman from ohio is recognized for his questions. I want to thank you for holding the hearing and the gentle lady from california i have Great Respect for indicated that the hearings and it is certainly disappointing that we have to hold a hearing like this about an organization that every year brutally kills hundreds of thousands of unborn innocent babies and sells their body parts and does it for profit. I happen to represent most of the city of cincinnati and planned parenthood is approximately 330,000 abortions, the largest provider in the country. They basically wipe out the population of the city every year about 300,00
Structured as a nonprofit organization. I would ask a direct question about the finances. Thats the way i took the question given that is the direction and the drive for the hearing was about. If we find any wrongdoing . The answer was no. Will the gentleman yield . I willen just one moment. But me finish my thought. Its inappropriate to suggest that i have come to some grand conclusion about every part of their operation. We did in the Oversight Government Reform Committee we have some of those videos. We have jointly worked with the democrats on that. We had a court ruling earlier this week to get the rest of those videos. There would be a temporary restraining order in california that would not release those videos. The judge recently ruled in our favor to those videos are now being sent to congress. They may have arrived and im not aware of it and i will work with Liza Cummings and figure out the best course on what to do with these videos. But just caution to members that its a bi
Once again, live for a hearing on last months waste water spill at the Gold King Mine in colorado. A couple of house committees this morning will hear testimony on capitol hill from epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy and a number of tribal officials from the Navajo Nation, just one area affected by that spill. The spill contaminated rivers in kol co colorado, new mexico and utah and in the Navajo Nation. Yesterday, Gina Mccarthy testified before a Senate Committee and she defended the epas response to the spill and their cleanup efforts. The epa has suspended cleanup work and site investigations at ten polluted mining complexes in four states because of conditions that are similar to those that led to the spill in colorado. The four sites are in colorado, three in california. A couple in montana and one in missouri. This hearing should get under way in just a moment. This is live coverage on cspan3. Committee on oversight and government reform and the committee on nagtural resources have