Dems Re-Name House Committee Probing Planned Parenthood: "Select Committee to Attack Women's Health"

[kpete]

Democrats Coin A More Accurate Name For House Committee Probing Planned Parenthood
Six Dems will serve on what they call the Select Committee to Attack Women's Health.


WASHINGTON -- House Republicans have convened a Select Investigative Panel to investigate "the grisly practices of big abortion providers." But Democrats, who considered boycotting the committee because they think it will target Planned Parenthood exclusively, on Wednesday unveiled their preferred name: the Select Committee to Attack Women's Health.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in a statement, also named Democrats to sit on the committee.

“I am proud to name six strong champions of women, families and facts to stand up against the latest Republican assault on women’s health,” Pelosi said. “Hard-working families deserve better than a taxpayer-funded Republican Select Committee fixated on dismantling women’s health. As Republicans try to take affordable family planning and lifesaving preventive care away from millions of American women, Democrats will be in the room to fight for the truth.”

The Democrats on the committee are Reps. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.), who will be the ranking member; Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.); Diana DeGette (Colo.); Jackie Speier (Calif.); Suzan DelBene (Wash.); and Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.). Statements from the members used Pelosi's name for the committee, rather than the GOP's designated title.

Eight Republicans have been named to the panel.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/planned-parenthood-democrats_563a81aee4b0411d306f8499?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

[riversedge]

1. "Republican Select Committee to Attack Women's Health" add Repugs.

[valerief]

2. 8 Repubs and 6 Dems. How Republican of them. nt

[murielm99]

3. Jan Shakowsky will do a good job.

She is a fine Democrat and advocate for women.

[Fred Sanders]

4. What year is this? Why do the extremist Christians always get a pass to persue their fantastical

beliefs and impose them on the nation? How many times wil the GOP be outed as corrupt liars and religious fantasies intent on dismantling democracy before folks catch on and the mass media stops looking the other way?

[niyad]

5. pretty mild compared to what they are doing.

[spanone]

6. you can bet marsha blackburn (partisan-TN) is sharpening her knives...she'll chair this committee

and pretend she's protecting women's constitutional rights