{"id":75746,"date":"2015-09-30T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=75746"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:16:00","slug":"19-key-numbers-republicans-used-to-question-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/19-key-numbers-republicans-used-to-question-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"19 key numbers Republicans used to question Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Daily Signal<\/a>) 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 its federal taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

Richards fiercely defended Planned Parenthood from partisan allegations made by House Republicans, which she called \u201coutrageous, \u201coffensive\u201d and \u201ccategorically untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe latest smear campaign is based on efforts by our opponents to entrap our doctors and clinicians into breaking the law \u2014 and once again our opponents failed,\u201d Richards said in her testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

The hearing was called by Chairman Jason Chaffetz in light of \u201cdisturbing\u201d videos emerged this summer detailing tissue procurement from aborted babies. Yet, during the hearing, members spent little time addressing the videos.<\/p>\n

Instead, Republican lawmakers focused their questioning on Planned Parenthood\u2019s finances and how it spends its $528 million taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDoes Planned Parenthood really need federal subsidies? Does it need federal dollars?\u201d asked Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah. \u201cAs far as I can tell, this is an organization that doesn\u2019t need federal subsidies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats, on the other hand, defended the organization and called out Republicans for taking their fight against Planned Parenthood too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou threatened to shut down the government you ousted your speaker and now you want to set off yet another select committee to investigate,\u201d Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Va. said. \u201cDo you really want to do this? Do you really want to align yourself with radical extremists?\u201d<\/p>\n

But Republicans didn\u2019t back down, and spend the next five hours peppering Richards with questions over the services Planned Parenthood provides, their travel and party expenses, employee salaries and \u201cco-mingling\u201d of 501c(3) and 501c(4) funds.<\/p>\n

Here is a summary of the key points addressed in today\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n

Employee Salaries<\/b><\/p>\n

Chaffetz questioned Richards about her $590,928<\/b> salary in 2013, and her combined income of more than $2.7 million<\/b> from 2009 to 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlanned Parenthood is an organization with massive salaries,\u201d Chaffetz said.<\/p>\n

They also raised concern over reports that over 40 of Planned Parenthood\u2019s executives earned $200,000 or more<\/b> over the years 2009 to 2013.<\/p>\n

Those include:<\/p>\n