Eleven Republican senators are asking Attorney General Loretta Lynch to conduct “a full investigation” of Planned Parenthood in order to determine whether the nation’s largest abortion provider violated a federal law that prohibits the sale of human fetal tissue.
Washington
July 23, 2015
DENVER (AP) — A group of Colorado nuns is appealing a federal appellate court ruling that found that President Barack Obama's health care law adequately protects them from having to provide coverage of contraception for their employees, potentially setting up another combustible debate over birth control and religion in the midst of next year's presidential election.
July 21, 2015
Sixty-eight congressional Democrats have signed a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, asking the Education Department to “use every avenue at its disposal to protect LGBT students from discriminatory school environments.”
July 21, 2015
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order Tuesday authorizing Wisconsin National Guard personnel to carry firearms while on duty in the wake of an attack on a pair of military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
July 21, 2015
July 20, 2015
July 21, 2015
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he rejected the “premise that Planned Parenthood is harvesting fetal organs” at his weekly pen-and-pad meeting with reporters on Tuesday.
July 22, 2015
Fifty U.S. senators, 49 Republicans and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to investigate Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s “practice of harvesting the organs of unborn babies.”
July 23, 2015
John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, would not say whether the Republican-majority House will fund Planned Parenthood in the upcoming appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), either through a stand-alone bill or a government-wide continuing resolution (CR).