At the beginning of a five-hour committee hearing on Tuesday with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards as the sole witness, Chairman Jason Chaffetz made a surprising announcement. The Utah congressman and oversight committee chairman said he wouldn’t focus on the undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practice of harvesting and selling the organs and tissue of aborted babies to biotech companies.
“I’ve allowed great latitude to members, they can ask what they want to ask, but the focus of what we’re doing today is how this organization is funded and how they spend their money,” Chaffetz said. His rationale for focusing on Planned Parenthood’s finances was that all of the undercover videos have not yet been released because a California judge has imposed a temporary restraining order. “The first step is seeing all the videos. All the videos,” Chaffetz said.
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