{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://love.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=606", "House Votes to Continue Funding Select Panel on Infant Lives", "2016-12-02", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Mia Love", "L000584", "love.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "On December 1, 2016 Congresswoman Mia Love spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives to highlight 8 cases that have been referred for prosecution, tied to the possible illegal sale of fetal tissue.\r\n\r\n\tThe House voted to continue funding the committee by a vote of 234-181.\r\n\r\n\tYou can watch the floor speech here.\r\n\r\n\tNews coverage of the speech and the House vote.\r\n\r\n\tText of the speech is here:\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tMany have said that the three House Committee investigations related to the sales of fetal tissue have produced nothing.\u00a0 Others have said that the State Attorney General investigations have also looked into the matter and found nothing.\u00a0 They complain that this is a \u201cwaste of time\u201d and a \u201cwaste of money\u201d.\r\n\r\n\tThere is so much that we the American People didn\u2019t understand and still don\u2019t understand about this industry.\u00a0 However, since then the Panel\u2019s investigation has uncovered alarming revelations about the fetal tissue industry, and because of this, there have been criminal and regulatory referrals.\u00a0 These have resulted in numerous investigations around the nation.\u00a0 I will highlight eight of these referrals.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tFirst, the Panel discovered that the University of New Mexico was violating their state\u2019s Anatomical Gift Act by receiving tissue from a late term abortion clinic.\u00a0 This is currently being investigated.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tSecond, the Panel made a forensic accounting analysis of Stem Express\u2019s limited production and determined that they were profiting from the sale of baby body parts.\u00a0 Now the El Dorado District Attorney and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating this.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tThird, the Panel learned that Stem Express and certain abortion clinics were violating the HIPAA privacy rights of vulnerable women for the sole purpose of increasing the harvesting of fetal tissue to make money.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tFourth, the Panel discovered that an abortion clinic in Arkansas violated state law when it sent tissue to StemExpress.\u00a0 This too is under investigation.\r\n\r\n\tFifth, the Panel discovered that a university in Ohio was trafficking in baby body parts, an illegal act under Ohio State Law.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tSixth, it was discovered that DV Biologics, another tissue procurement company, was profiting from the sale of fetal tissue and was violating California sales tax law.\u00a0 This case has been filed.\r\n\r\n\tSeventh, recently the Panel learned that Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast violated both Texas and US law when it sold baby body part to the University of Texas.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tEighth, the Panel also just learned that Advanced Bioscience Resources made a profit when it sold tissue to various universities.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tAs elected Representatives we are tasked with oversight of our government that enforces our laws.\u00a0 These eight referrals are proof of potential criminal activity in the fetal tissue industry.\u00a0 They justify the existence of the Panel and their investigations.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tHowever, the work of The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives\u2019 is not finished.\u00a0 There are more referrals to come and in order to complete this work, continued funding for the Panel\u2019s unfinished work is needed.\u00a0 I urge my colleagues to support this bill to fund this investigative work and fulfill our obligation to the American people and the rule of law.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://love.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=606"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7256718818098307, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}