House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is continuing to press Vice President Joe Biden for saying China’s one-child policy is something he doesn’t “second guess,” despite a White House statement that followed reiterating both the administration’s and the Vice Presient’s disapproval of the law.
“Now that such a clarification has been offered, the Obama administration needs to back its backpedaling with action,” a statement from Boehner’s office reads.
The statement calls for the Vice President to publicly repudiate the policy and for President Obama to take a page from the Bush administration and withhold funding for the United Nation’s Population Fund since it supports China’s program.
“Until the administration takes these actions, the clarification issued by the Vice President’s spokesman Tuesday will ring hollow,” the statement reads.