Marsha Blackburn

Mrs. BLACKBURN

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Gibbs).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I reserve a point of order.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 20 seconds to respond to something. Our colleagues across the aisle have a colleague from New Jersey who previously spoke. I want to reference a press release that was sent out August 15 from his office on community health centers: Community health centers attend to hard-to-reach populations and are a vital resource that have a significant impact in improving health in New Jersey. Talking about reaching hard-to-serve populations, this is what we are doing. Let's put the money where it meets the most needs. I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy), who is the author of H.R. 3495, the Women's Public Health and Safety Act, and commend him for his commitment in those efforts.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Pittenger).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 5 seconds to respond. For 98.5 percent of the pregnant women who received a pregnancy- related service at Planned Parenthood, that service was an abortion. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield the gentlewoman an additional 30 seconds.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), the chairman of the Pro-Life Caucus.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I will never be ashamed of standing up and defending life--ever--and I find it so interesting that our efforts to protect life are termed ``radical.'' That is an interesting turn of events, if I say so myself. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Bucshon), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I object.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I withdraw.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond. We are hearing words such as ``denied,'' ``deprived,'' ``detriment'' to women's healthcare. We are increasing women's health care. Tennessee has four Planned Parenthood clinics and 26 federally qualified health clinics. Also, I would remind my colleagues the investigation is ongoing. It is ongoing. It started yesterday at Energy and Commerce. We will continue through this to get to the bottom of it. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hensarling), the chairman of the Financial Services Committee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I was beginning to think that we were off on a different bill there for just a moment. Madam Speaker, I yield 15 seconds to myself to respond. Madam Speaker, we are not on a bill about a government shutdown. We are on a bill that will make certain that women have access to health care, H.R. 3134. I will remind my colleagues that it does remove the funds from Planned Parenthood, and it does enable them to go to women's health clinics. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), who is the author of this legislation and has been such an advocate for addressing women's healthcare needs.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Ellmers), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the chairman of the Republican Women's Policy Committee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Boustany), who chairs the Subcommittee on Human Resources at Ways and Means.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and vice chair of the Health Subcommittee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 10 seconds to myself to respond. Again, Madam Speaker, refocusing us on the bill, we are talking about being certain that there is access to health care. Cancer screenings and prevention services from Planned Parenthood have been cut in half over the past 7 years. They do not perform mammograms. They perform over 300,000 abortions annually. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis), the vice chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond to some of the comments and to remind my colleagues this investigation that we are conducting is ongoing. Cancer screenings and prevention services have been cut in half at Planned Parenthood over the past 7 years. They do not perform mammograms; they outsource it. They perform over 300,000 abortions annually; that is their own number. Madam Speaker, 98.5 percent of the pregnant women who go there go for an abortion. At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts), the chairman of the Health Subcommittee.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 421, I call up the bill (H.R. 3134) to provide for a moratorium on Federal funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I withdraw my reservation of a point of order.

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn).

Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself 10 seconds to respond. Madam Speaker, they sure want that government shutdown. I do want to remind them that we have over 13,000 community health centers in the country. Planned Parenthood has cut their cancer screening and prevention services in half in the past 7 years, and they do not perform mammograms, but they do over 300,000 abortions. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Roe).