In other news, the Obama administration has unveiled new regulations for mountaintop removal mining and the pollution of streams and water sources.
The proposed rule, which is now subject to a 60-day public comment period, will protect about 6,500 miles of streams across the U.S. from the impacts of coal mining, according to the Interior Department. Up until now, mining companies had been operating under rules that were written in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, it appears that congressional Republicans knew about the fake fetus body parts video weeks ago but they timed their outrage with the public release of the deceptively edited video.