The circus is on in Congress today, as House Republicans grill the president of Planned Parenthood in an effort to take down fetal tissue research (and maybe trigger a government shutdown).

But watch as the committee’s lead Democrat, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, points to the political double-standard: Lots of big corporations have actually been caught breaking laws — which Planned Parenthood has not — but you don’t see Congress going after their federal funding.

Video via House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats.

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