The Democrats appointed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to a special committee investigating Planned Parenthood for its sale of aborted-baby body parts have received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from Planned Parenthood.

"All totaled, the abortion industry has paid more than $305,000 for the six Democrats appointed to the Select Investigative Panel tasked with investigating Planned Parenthood," noted Matthew Clark in a commentary at the political Redstate.com.

"These are far more than abortion rights supporters; these members are handpicked by the abortion industry. They are practically on Planned Parenthood's payroll," he wrote.

Named by Pelosi to be the minority party's representation on the committee were Reps. Diana DeGette of Colorado, Suzan DelBene of Washington, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Jerrold Nadler of New York, Jackie Speier of California and Bonnie Coleman of New Jersey.

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Appointed earlier to chair the committee was Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., The Hill reported.

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It is similar to the select panel investigating Benghazi.

Then-House Speaker John Boehner said already three committees have been looking into a series of undercover videos that reveal Planned Parenthood officials negotiating for payment for the body parts of unborn babies.

But Boehner said Congress still doesn't have "the full truth."

"Chairman Blackburn and our members will have the resources and the subpoena power to get to the bottom of these horrific practices and build on our work to protect the sanctity of all human life," he said at the time.

The other seven GOP members are Reps. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania, Diane Black of Tennessee, Larry Bucshon of Indiana, Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, Andy Harris of Maryland, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri and Mia Love of Utah.

Planned Parenthood immediately accused Blackburn of being "one of Congress' most extreme opponents of safe and legal abortion."

The Media Research Center, through its Newsbusters outlet, said, "It's called following the money trail – and the media should do more of it."

The report said Planned Parenthood has given the six Democrats in the range of $80,000 directly.

It cited the Center for Responsive Politics figures for Planned Parenthood giving Schakowsky $11,865, Nadler $5,535, DeGette: $36,735, Speier $4,000, DelBene $19,232 and Coleman $2,500.

The report said that earlier this year, Schakowsky and Nadler sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general calling for an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress, which produced the undercover videos, not Planned Parenthood.

Nadler has called CMP 'liars in a long line of liars.'"

DeGette admitted in 2011 that she was a member of the Colorado Planned Parenthood board "for several years" in the 1990s.

Speier defended Planned Parenthood funding in 2011, when she publicized her own abortion, Newsbusters said.

RedState noted that in addition to the Planned Parenthood funding, "the abortion industry as a whole has been stuffing these members' campaign coffers with hundreds of thousands of dollars."

It cited the abortion lobbyist Emily's List giving Schakowsky more than $64,000 and DelBene $48,000.

And it said NARAL Pro-Choice America gave DeGette with $31,000 and Nadlery with $19,000.

"This … does not include the potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars more in independent expenditures on these members' behalf. This is far beyond a conflict of interest. The Democrats on the panel are literally sponsored by Planned Parenthood and big abortion. They might as well wear logos to the committee hearings," wrote Clark at RedState.

WND has reported that the scandal uncovered by the videos has extended even to Europe, where two members of the European Parliament put the defunding of Planned Parenthood on their agenda.

"Europe is horrified by the scandalous harvesting and selling of human body parts allegedly for profit by Planned Parenthood in the USA," said Miroslav Mikolasik of Slovakia, chairman of a parliamentary working group.

WND has reported extensively on the investigation of the body-parts trade conducted by the Center for Medical Progress.

Planned Parenthood's president, Cecile Richards, has called the videos "disingenuous" even though two reviews of the videos confirmed they are accurate.

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The Center for Medical Progress set up a fake company and sent investigators with concealed video cameras to Planned Parenthood clinics. Planned Parenthood officials were caught haggling over the price of baby body parts. A number of them talked about being paid per item, how they could adjust abortion procedures to salvage requested body parts and how they could create a revenue stream from such transactions.

Planned Parenthood is the abortion industry's largest operator in the United States, doing about 327,000 abortions annually and getting paid more than $500 million in taxpayer funds.

Federal law allows reimbursement for costs of tissue donation but no profit. Federal law also prohibits the adjustment of any abortion procedure to salvage body parts.

The videos show Planned Parenthood executives indicating that both of those standards were being violated.

WND reported a congressional panel has subpoenaed and received all of the uncut videos that were obtained by CMP.

In the first undercover video released by CMP, Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on crushing babies.

"We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact," she said.

See the first video:

In the second video, Planned Parenthood's Mary Gatter said, "I want a Lamborghini."

See her comments:

In the fifth, Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood's Houston clinic discusses "intact fetal cadavers":

The seventh video has the testimony of a Planned Parenthood worker who tapped an aborted infant's heart and saw it start beating.

And No. 8 has Cate Dyer, CEO of Stem Express, admitting Planned Parenthood sells fully intact aborted babies.

WND has reported on the videos as they have been released. They are posted online.