President Obama is likely to veto the bill and Republicans do not have the votes to override it. They wanted to stick it in the eye of the president just in time for Christmas.
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The final vote was 52-47.
The vote comes after the U.S. House passed two anti-choice bills in September-one to gut Planned Parenthood’s federal funding for one year unless the reproductive health-care provider stops performing abortions, and another that pro-choice advocates say would have a chilling effect on providers.
King voted in favor of Collins’ amendment and voted against repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Democrats brought up the Manchin-Toomey measure, a proposal from Sen.
Republican Sens. Mark Kirk of IL and Susan Collins of ME strayed from their party and voted against the legislation.
The White House was quick to issue a veto threat and make sure that this legislation is DOA, “The Administration strongly opposes Senate passage of the Senate amendment to H.R. 3762”.
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Democrats proposed amendments to the bill that would enhance gun control measures, but Republicans blocked those amendments. The other would have barred firearm purchases by people on terrorist watch lists.
Lawmakers have voted dozens of times to repeal all or parts of the health care overhaul. (Find a center here.) In fact, this billincreases funding to community and federally qualified health centers, proving that pro-life Americans do practically care about the health of women. “For too long, Democrats did everything to prevent Congress from passing the type of legislation necessary to help these Americans who are hurting”.
Some Republicans are also clearly nervous about the political implications of throwing millions of Americans off of their insurance, which is why GOP leadership has said that both provisions would be implemented gradually, to give time for Republicans to design an “alternative” health law. It would also put an end to the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would repeal taxes set to be imposed in 2018 on expensive “Cadillac” insurance plans provided by employers.
In July, Senate Republicans, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, introduced legislation to cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood. Without the coverage mandate, the government has said those rules would create an industry “death spiral”, in which only patients with costly health conditions would buy insurance. Republicans had a favorable Senate race map during that election, but are expected to encounter a much more hard challenge in 2016, when the majority of the so-called competitive Senate seats are in states that Obama won when he was running for president.
Two attempts to save funding for Planned Parenthood failed.
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Democrats said some Senate Republicans will face retribution from voters. “I truly, honestly can not come up with a better reason why my Republican colleagues have forced us back to the Senate floor once again to talk about another reckless scheme to defund Planned Parenthood”.
