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Joe Pitts for Chairman of Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health

By: Marjorie Dannenfelser (Diary)  |  November 19th, 2010 at 01:22 PM  | 

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It is critical that the Energy and Commerce Committee reflect the values of the pro-life American majority that sent a freshman class to Congress with marching orders to end all federal funding of abortion.

That’s why it is absolutely crucial that Rep. Joe Pitts — champion in the fight against abortion in health care and many other pro-life battles — is named chairman of its Subcommittee on Health.

This gateway committee has jurisdiction over life and death policies affecting unborn children.

A Subcommittee on Health chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts is a must-send message from GOP House leadership to pro-life America, especially given its reported preference of Rep. Fred Upton — who has a mixed record on protecting life — as full committee chairman. In pursuing a strategy of defending the unborn, Upton is far short of the ideal. But to fail to name Pitts and equally strong pro-lifers to other relevant subcommittee chairs would be a strategic disaster for pro-life goals.

Rep. Joe Pitts must be appointed as chairman of the Health Subcommittee to help ensure the promise made by GOP leadership in its “Pledge to America” to end taxpayer funding of abortion is met.

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  • freemanja1991

    All of the members on this subcommittee should be various health care professionals (Doctors, Nurses, and insurance agents) on our side, the dems will only be able to throw trial lawyers against us here. It would really throw a wrench in the libs accusations when we go to replacing health care reform. I don’t know What Rep Pitts is by trade. But I think we need to really put on a show in this field. Maybe this subcommittee should be its own committee.

  • carter2009

    by the folks who guaranteed passage of the health care bill by demanding Republicans not vote present on the Stupak-Pitts amendment.

    And we all know how well that strategy worked out.

  • mikejmoe

    Nobody backed that strategy because it was a stupid strategy. The Stupak Dems ended up caving anyway, and had the Republicans voted present they probably would have done it a lot earlier. And because they caved (and couldn’t blame it on Republican obstructionism), we were able to use it as a political weapon — well, I should say, the Susan B. Anthony List was able to use it as a political weapon — to take them out this past November because they caved.