During floor debate, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Democrats had picked a fight on something where there "is absolutely no fight." People want to politicize it because it's an election year, but my God, do we have to fight about everything? Boehner said President Barack Obama has proposed cutting the health fund for other purposes, The Hill reported. "So to accuse us of wanting to gut women's health is absolutely not true," he said. Ladies and gentlemen, this is beneath us. This is beneath the dignity of this House, and the dignity of the public trust that we enjoy from our constituents. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the healthcare fund helps pay for immunization, health screening and other preventive maintenance, so cutting it to pay for maintain student loan interest rates "just would be wrong." "Imagine if we're sitting around that kitchen table as a family ... and we say as a family, in order for you to go to college, we're not going to be able to immunize your little brother or sister, we're not going to be able to have preventive care in terms of screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer ... for your mom, or any other preventive care for men and women in our family," Pelosi said on the House floor. Boehner said this week $4 billion had been taken from the health fund, which he dubbed a "slush fund," to pay for the recent payroll-tax reduction. "It may be a slush fund to him, but it's survival to women," Pelosi said."