Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Ralph Norman (SC-05) introduced the Funds In Legal Evaluation Act, or the FILE Act. This bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review how organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, spend federal dollars.
Congressman Norman has released the following statement:
"The FILE Act will ensure that organizations are complying with federal law and not using tax payer dollars to provide abortions. If an organization has failed to follow the law and used federal funds for abortion services, then they will be denied future funding.
“Organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, are already required to submit an annual accounting of how they spent funds they received, but the HHS Secretary does not review them in a timely manner. This means that Planned Parenthood continues to provide abortion-related services, but we are not aware whether or not they use taxpayer dollars to do so.
“It only makes sense to ensure that the Secretary of HHS timely reviews those accountings to ensure federal laws are being followed.”
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