This is both stunning and quite wonderful:
An amendment introduced to strip Planned Parenthood of its taxpayer funding has passed the Rules Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, and is up for a vote on the House floor Friday, reports Jim Sedlak of the American Life League.
U.S. House Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) submitted, as part of the Health and Human Services appropriations bill, an amendment to render Planned Parenthood ineligible to receive Title X funds for “family planning” services.
The Pence Amendment states: “None of the funds made available under this Act shall be available to Planned Parenthood for any purpose under Title X of the Public Health Services Act.”
The backers of the amendment are counting on the people to carry it through – so:
Contact your House member and
your Senators.
My bet is that Pelosi will try to spike this on the floor – she doesn’t want to have common-sense issues like this coming to a vote because it would force moderate Democrats to vote rationally, thus exposing the weakness of the liberal’s House position…that it is dependent upon the votes of people who are in fundamental disagreement with the Democrat leadership. We’d be back to the early 80’s situation where the Democrats’ House majority was nominal while a coalition of GOPers and conservative/moderate Democrats really ran the show.
That aside – and I do urge everyone to make their voice heard – the mere fact that we can get such an amendment out of committee shows how badly weakened the liberal House leadership is. We can stop Obamunism – we can stop Pelosi and Reid from running rough shod over our nation. All we need do is fight and fight and then fight some more.
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