The White House said today that President Barack Obama would add to his lengthy pro-abortion record by vetoing legislation the House will vote on tomorrow that bans taxpayer funding of abortions across the board.

Obama would veto HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, should Congress approve the legislation, with the White House saying the president opposes the bill because it would supposedly make it tougher for women to obtain abortion coverage from private insurance companies thereby expanding the current Hyde Amendment, which only limits tax-funded abortions under Medicaid, beyond its current reach.

“The Administration will strongly oppose legislation that unnecessarily restricts women’s reproductive freedoms and consumers’ private insurance options,” the White House said in a statement. “If the President is presented with H.R. 3, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill”...

The U.S. House is set to take action this week on a bill that would ban federal tax funds for abortion -- permanently.

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3) is sponsored by Congressman Chris Smith (R-New Jersey); it has more than 225 co-sponsors. Voting on the measure is expected to commence this week.

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association tells OneNewsNow that H.R. 3 would replace the Hyde Amendment...

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on legislation that would ban federal taxpayer funding of abortions throughout the federal government in all agencies and programs.

The measure is expected to receive approval in the Republican-controlled House, but it’s fate in the Democrat-controlled Senate is far from certain. There, pro-life Republican lawmakers will likely have a hard time getting pro-abortion Democrats to bring up the measure and may have to attack the legislation to another bill in order to get a vote on it.

The House Rules Committee has announced that it will be meeting on Tuesday to formulate the rules for debate on the legislation, HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, and the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has confirmed with LifeNews.com that the vote will indeed take place on the full House floor on Wednesday...

Former Sen. Rick Santorum is a potential Republican presidential candidate and, today, he challenged another potential presidential hopeful, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on a key bill that could make or break his potential campaign.

Daniels, who has advocated a truce on social issues like abortion so the next president can focus on the economy, has on his desk a bill the Indiana legislature approved that would limit abortions in several ways but also cut off taxpayer funding for the Indiana affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Santorum, who has a strong pro-life record and is making pro-life issues a main focus of his likely GOP bid, says Daniels should sign the bill into law...

The House of Representatives may vote as early as next week on legislation that would institute a government-wide ban on any direct taxpayer funding of abortions in any federal departments or programs.

The legislation enjoys the strong support of pro-life groups because it makes the ban federal law and pro-life lawmakers don’t have to find annual battles to renew several pro-life provisions covering various programs where taxpayer funding of abortions could take place. At the end of March, a second House committee voted 22 to 14 to give approval to a companion bill to the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” HR 3, thereby setting up a vote on the House floor.

In February, the House Judiciary Committee approved the main bill on a mostly partisan 23-14 vote. The committee also removed a provision concerning forcible rape that abortion advocates had used to misconstrue the intent of the legislation...

(CNSNews.com) - “The President tries to tax, to tax our way out of debt -- placing the burden on those earning more than $100,000,“ Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said on the House floor Thursday morning.

“The problem, sir, is a simple one -- that if we were to tax these individuals 100 percent of their income, we still could not cover our deficit this year alone. As a matter of fact, to tax our way out of debt we would need to increase taxes across the board on every man, on every woman and every business by 60 percent. You simply cannot tax your way out of this debt,” Scott said.

In his fiscal address Wednesday, President Obama expressed his desire to allow Bush-era tax cuts to expire for individuals making $200,000 or more a year and couples making $250,000 or more as part of his plan to reduce the deficit...

The U.S. Senate has defeated an attempt by the House to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood.

House lawmakers had already voted to block taxpayer money from going to the nation's biggest abortion provider, but Senate Democrats and five Republicans rejected the measure 58 to 42.

Planned Parenthood receives more than $360 million a year in taxpayer funds...

Republicans had a message Wednesday for President Obama as he prepared to outline his deficit-reduction plan, with at least a partial emphasis on taxes: Don't go there.

GOP leaders reiterated their argument that Washington has a "spending problem," not a revenue problem, and that new taxes on the wealthy -- who Republicans describe as the job creators and small business owners who will drive the economic recovery -- are a bad idea.

"I hope we don't have a re-do and a do-over of the tax agreement," House Republican Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said, referring to the bipartisan deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years. "This was an issue that was litigated in the election last fall"...

WASHINGTON -- Higher taxes have been missing from the fierce budget battle that nearly shut down the federal government. But President Obama is about to put them on the table -- at least a modest version that he had pushed before and then rested on the shelf.

Most economists and budget analysts say a comprehensive mix of spending cuts and tax increases is essential to any viable deficit-reduction plan. Yet few players in the negotiations have gone there.

It comes in the scramble to heed what is widely viewed as a loud clamor from voters to slam the brakes on runaway government spending. There has been no corresponding public demand for raising taxes. That's not surprising, but the top-bracket U.S. tax rate now is the lowest it's been in decades, and it's far lower than those in many other industrialized countries, especially in western Europe...

Last June, we broke the story titled “Planned Parenthood’s missing millions” that focused on $1.3 billion of government money received by Planned Parenthood from 2003 to 2008, which was left unaccounted for when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the expenditures of federal funds by the abortion giant.

Our question to Planned Parenthood was: Where are those missing millions?

The Florida-based political “fact checker” Politifact joined with Planned Parenthood in a March 25 report headlined “Planned Parenthood funding: Did the GAO really find millions missing?” It attempted to exonerate the abortion giant’s lack of transparency in accounting for the large amounts of federal taxpayer money it received. However, they succeeded only in raising more questions...