Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon released the following statement after voting for H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, a bill to defund Planned Parenthood and fund federally qualified health centers and rural health centers that do not perform abortions.

 

“As a physician, I’m proud to support this legislation to redirect federal funds from Planned Parenthood to federally qualified health centers that provide better, more comprehensive health services and do not perform abortions,” said Bucshon. “I’ve operated on babies as young as 23 weeks gestation. In fact, the smallest baby I operated on weighed only 650 grams. I find the callous, cavalier nature of the recently released Planned Parenthood videos appalling and cannot, in good conscious, support allowing taxpayer dollars to fund these activities.”

 

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Below is a table comparing the health services available at Planned Parenthood Facilities vs. Federally Qualified Health Centers:

Eighth District Congressman Larry Bucshon, M.D. called out Congressional Democrats for voting to grant Iran the ability to export oil, while at the same time supporting a ban on the export of U.S. crude oil.

“I find it hard to believe that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have voted to allow Iran to export their oil, but won’t vote to allow America to export our oil,” Bucshon asserted during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on H.R. 702. The legislation would lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude oil exports and passed the committee by a bipartisan vote of 31 to 19.

Following his vote on H.R. 702, Bucshon remarked, “studies show that exporting U.S. crude oil will help drive down the price the American people pay at the pump, will lead to an increase in household disposable incomes, and will create good-paying jobs here at home. It will also enhance our national security by giving our allies the opportunity to import American oil instead of oil from countries like Iran.”

 

Watch the hearing video by clicking here: https://youtu.be/o9orpB9oi1w. The text is available in full below.

 

“When we talk about national security, helping our allies in Central and Eastern Europe is a national security issue. Just look at what happened in Crimea.

 

“I also find it hard to believe that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have voted to allow Iran to export their oil, but won’t vote to allow America to export our oil.

 

“And the last point is, if American companies are profitable, they create jobs. That’s what this [H.R. 702] is about.”