HARRIS COMPARES TEA PARTY TO TALIBAN

(Dissociated Press) Speaking to a group of reporter in his congressional office at 6 AM Saturday morning,  a flushed Andy Harris announced that he was disappointed that his GOP colleagues in the House and Senate had agreed to keep the government open.


"We have missed a real opportunity here to drive home the point that women and women's health is a contradiction in terms."


"The Tea Party and the Taliban have a lot in common, which is a genuine disgust for feisty women."


"It is certainly not enough for me," Harris said, raising his voice,"that we defund abortion services. We have to completely defund organizations that provide health care to poor women."


"We have to be-head these groups!"


"Don't kid yourselves. That's why I came here to Washington." 


"This sort of literal cutting is a lot more important to me than overall reductions in the federal budget, which is why I have already voted to increase federal spending."


"Look at my record." 

"I am a co-sponsor of HB 217, legislation that will amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit ANY federal family planning assistance."

"That means that women won't be able to get preventive medical care and will have to wait until they are sick and then have to go to an ER." 

"ER visits rather than preventive health care through an insurance plan will cost more money than the government spends now, but so what?"

"The whole point is to demean women."

"That is what I am about." 

"And don't forget my co-sponsorship of HB 358, the Protect Life Act. This bill prohibits federal funds from being used to cover ANY part of the costs of ANY health plan that includes coverage of abortion services."

"Of course, this provision, if we can get it passed into law, will also force women to the nearest ER, after they are too sick to work or take care of their kids - which is great!" 

"I am happy to cut the budget, except of course for subsidies for oil exploration and stuff like that, but I will live with increases in federal expenditures, like ER costs, so long as fewer programs are out there that offer preventive health care for women."

"I was really happy to vote to make rape a legal mode of conception, such as in HB 3, when it was introduced. I will be looking to make other changes in the criminal laws, in the months ahead."

"My message to women? Marry a rich guy, and do what he wants." 

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MESSAGE FROM ANDY HARRIS, APRIL 1ST

If you are going to report on my legislative record, get it right. You have not listed all of the bills which I am co-sponsoring. I am proud to report that many of these bills have nothing to do with fiscal matters and everything to do with federal involvement in the private lives of my constituents. I favor this sort of involvement, which is what being pro-life is all about.

I have co-sponsored  HB 217:

This bill will change Title X of the Abortion Provider Prohibition Act.

The effect of this bill will be to amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS) from providing ANY federal family planning assistance to ANY entity unless the entity certifies that, during the period of such assistance, the entity will NOT perform, and will NOT provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion. 

This bill, as introduced, will not permit any entity who accepts federal money to use money from some other source, to provide abortion services.

I am also a co-sponsor of HB 358, the Protect Life Act. 

This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

This bill prohibits federal funds from being used to cover ANY part of the costs of ANY health plan that includes coverage of abortion services. 

The philosophy behind these bills is to prohibit abortion services from being paid for by non-federal funds and even by private funds.

While these two bills might be seen as unwarranted intrusions of federal power into how state or private money may be spent, this approach is in keeping with my personal philosophy of government.

My philosophy of government is simple:


Whatever conduct I don't like ought to be illegal.


People I don't like, such as obstetricians and their patients, ought to be treated like criminals.


That's it.


ANDY HARRIS
April 1, 2011

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