When did Democrats start worrying about wasting taxpayer dollars?

Via HuffPo:

Apparently fed up with their Republican colleagues’ policy priorities, a group of Democratic congresswomen sent a scathing memo to the GOP on Friday to express their frustration.

“We know you are receptive to memos and have expressed an interest in learning about how to better communicate with women on the issues important to them,” the memo begins, linking to applicable articles. “To that end, this memo is in the spirit of moving past partisan politics and working together to ensure America’s women and their families have the economic security and opportunities they need to succeed.”

The memo, penned by Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and sent to the House Republican Caucus, notes that an all-male panel of congressmen on a House Judiciary Subcommittee discussed a “dead-end bill” on Thursday that would raise taxes on women and small businesses whose insurance plans include abortion coverage. The GOP’s own witness in that hearing, law professor Helen Alvaré, criticized Congress for focusing on abortion legislation instead of an economic agenda that actually benefits women and families. […]

“The constant debates and squabbling the witness decried are a result of Republicans refusing to take action on real legislation to help American women,” the congresswomen wrote in the memo on Friday. “The time has come to stop wasting taxpayers’ time and dollars waging attacks on women’s constitutionally protected right to make informed health care decisions about their own bodies with their own doctors and work on an ‘actual legislative agenda for women’s actual needs.'”