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Mitch McConnell: This Congress won’t be able to defund Planned Parenthood
Washington Post ^ | 9/1/15 | Mike DeBonis

Posted on 09/01/2015 4:55:10 PM PDT by markomalley

Attempts by Congress to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding are destined to fail as long as President Obama is in office, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.

"We just don't have the votes to get the outcome that we'd like," McConnell said in an interview taped Monday with WYMT-TV, which serves eastern Kentucky. "I would remind all of your viewers, the way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it, and the president has to sign it. The president's made it very clear he's not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood so that's another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view."

McConnell's comments put him at odds with hard-line members of his own party who are pushing to use the approaching Oct. 1 deadline for funding the federal government as leverage to force Obama and congressional Democrats to defund Planned Parenthood. A series of undercover videos released over the course of the summer has whipped up conservative outrage over the group's practices regarding the harvesting of fetal tissue for research. While federal money is already banned from being spent directly on abortions, Planned Parenthood opponents say Medicaid reimbursements and other federal grants indirectly support the group.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Kentucky; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: imperialpresident; mengele; plannedbutcherhood; plannedparenthood; prolife; surrendermonkey
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To: skeeter

People in KY seem to be in dire need of statewide civics education.


61 posted on 09/03/2015 7:58:09 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: marron

KY: Land of the Pathetic and Tragic Joke!


62 posted on 09/03/2015 7:59:14 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

You’d be surprised how popular McC is in KY: People there are too uninformed to know his record though he’s been around nearly 31 years now.


63 posted on 09/03/2015 8:00:51 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.

He is not called Obama’s b-itch for nothing. Ole McTurdle back in his shell.


64 posted on 09/03/2015 8:03:48 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A country without borders is not a country. Where did America go?)
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To: catnipman

In all fairness to McC, he did tell KY voters in 1984 that he would be another John Sherman Cooper. So he’s vote as the ultra-liberal Cooper would have done all these years.


65 posted on 09/03/2015 8:04:28 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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