Schakowsky Blasts Additional Funding For Select Investigative Panel

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Select Panel Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky released the following statement in response to the Committee on House Administration’s approval of a resolution providing an additional $800,000 for the Select Investigative Panel:

“One of the Republican Congress’s first acts upon returning to Washington was to approve additional funding for the Select Investigative Panel, doubling its budget and putting it on track to spend over $1.5 million of taxpayer funds by the end of this year.

Republicans are wasting no time in pursuing their promise to roll back women’s health care. The Panel has already endangered doctors’ lives and life-saving research. Studies and clinical trials on diseases and conditions like multiple sclerosis that impact millions of Americans have been delayed or halted. And Panel Republicans have released the names of doctors knowing that doing so threatens their safety.

This investigation – built on the lies perpetuated by anti-abortion extremists – has never been nor will it ever be a fact-based investigation. Despite Republicans’ failure to find any evidence of wrongdoing, they continue to make inflammatory allegations to justify the Panel’s existence.

Instead of providing more funding for this divisive and dangerous witch hunt, Congress should shut down this Panel and put an end to its shameful proceedings.”

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