{"id":75057,"date":"2015-09-24T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=75057"},"modified":"2015-09-24T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T15:48:52","slug":"cruz-threatens-weekend-senate-session-delay-planned-parenthood-funding-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cruz-threatens-weekend-senate-session-delay-planned-parenthood-funding-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz threatens weekend Senate session to delay Planned Parenthood-funding budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) is threatening to delay the vote on a GOP leadership-supported funding bill that includes subsidies for Planned Parenthood, to force Senate business to continue into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way to actually defund Planned Parenthood is to include it on must-pass legislation like the continuing resolution,\u201d Cruz argued. \u201cIt&#8217;s the reason why Republican leadership wants a show vote. They know they&#8217;ll lose instead of actually using their constitutional authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->He added that it should be &#8220;a simple matter&#8221; to make the case to the American people that &#8220;at a minimum we&#8217;re not going to send taxpayer money to a private organization that is under ongoing criminal investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is also circulating a letter to his Senate colleagues asking for their commitment to vote against any resolution that contains money for the abortion giant.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner have dismissed Cruz&#8217;s strategy as an exercise in futility and favor a so-called &#8220;clean&#8221; government funding resolution. His fellow presidential candidates John Kasich and Lindsey Graham also oppose risking a shutdown, while Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal favors it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) is threatening to delay the vote on a GOP leadership-supported funding bill that includes subsidies for Planned Parenthood, to force Senate business to continue into Saturday. &#8220;The only way to actually defund Planned Parenthood is to include it on must-pass legislation like the continuing resolution,\u201d Cruz argued. \u201cIt&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":50944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4241,19,4176,131,2804,14,615,1156,3908],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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