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Lawmakers Debate Cuts: From Planned Parenthood To EPA Funding

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio kept the House in session today in an attempt to send a completed spending bill to the Senate before adjourning for the holiday weekend. (AP)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio kept the House in session today in an attempt to send a completed spending bill to the Senate before adjourning for the holiday weekend. (AP)

Putting off a scheduled holiday, the Republican-led House of Representatives continued debate today on dozens of measures to cut spending in the current federal budget.

House Speaker John Boehner says he hopes to send a completed spending bill to the Senate by this weekend, even as newly elected Republican House members continue to push for deeper cuts in every part of the budget, including:

  • Funds for Planned Parenthood to provide health services to poor women
  • Tuition assistance for low-income students
  • Heating assistance for the poor
  • Some foreign aid
  • Funds for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Communications Commission.

We have an update with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

This segment aired on February 18, 2011.

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