The Daily Signal reports:
The fight over Planned Parenthood reached a boiling point Tuesday on Capitol Hill when Cecile Richards, president of the organization, testified before Congress about how the group uses taxpayer dollars.
…Republican lawmakers focused their questioning on Planned Parenthood’s finances and how the organization spends its $528 million in annual taxpayer funding.
“Does Planned Parenthood really need federal subsidies? Does it need federal dollars?” asked [Jason] Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah. “As far as I can tell, this is an organization that doesn’t need federal subsidies.”
The Republicans questions Richards about her $590,928 salary in 2013 and her combined salary of 2.7 million from 2009 to 20013. They wondered about the 40 other employees who earned more than $200,000 a year, the $5 million spent on travel, some of which was first-class or charter. The stunning numbers went on and on.
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JeffOctober 1, 2015
Michael, could we have some more specifics about what they could have done?
Michael BinghamOctober 1, 2015
The Republicans were pathetically ineffective and asked all the wrong questions. A bunch of old white men badgering Richards about her salary did nothing to focus on the real problem with Planned Parenthood. Mia Love was a broken record, repeatedly asking the same question about mammograms, which Richards adequately answered. This was an opportunity to make some serious headway against an evil organization, but the representatives of the Stupid Party sounded like a scolding Jewish mother rather than protectors of life.