The US Senate voted today in a largely symbolic measure to defund Planned Parenthood, despite a promise from the White House that President Barack Obama will veto the bill. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, another 2016 Republican presidential candidate, he “will continue to support repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood” but didn’t say whether he backed the Senate bill.
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After the House’s expected rubber stamp in coming days, the bill will be the first to reach Obama’s desk demolishing his health care law and blocking Planned Parenthood’s federal money.
Republicans lack the two-thirds majority needed to override the promised veto by Obama.
Some of the senators switched their votes when Collins’ amendment came up.
In a major address Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said axing the health care law would remain the GOP’s top priority, even if this year’s repeal effort is doomed.
The legislation still needs a vote in the House of Representatives, as it differs from a House version passed in October that concentrated on repealing the law’s mandates for individuals to buy health insurance and for larger companies to offer health plans to employees.
Though federal funding for Planned Parenthood will likely remain intact for the duration of the president’s term, many state-level Republican lawmakers, including those in Texas and Missouri, have introduced legislation to defund or limit access to abortion services at Planned Parenthood in their states.
According to the Susan B. Anthony fact sheet on Planned Parenthood, during the fiscal year 2013-2014 Planned Parenthood recieved more than $528 million in taxpayer funding. “They opposed the philosophy of it and they knew we were going to have a mess on our hands”, Sessions said. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, that would allow federal authorities to bar known terror suspects from getting a gun, and they rejected an attempt by Sen.
In recent months, many Senate Democrats have grown increasingly agitated at their inability to respond to the growing number of mass shootings across the country and pass tougher gun control legislation and measures to help mentally unstable people before they carry out a tragedy.
“An estimated 17.6 million Americans gained coverage…The (bill) would roll back coverage gains and cost millions of hard-working middle-class families the security of affordable health coverage they deserve”. They were able to do that through the 1996 Congressional Regulatory Review Act, which also requires only a majority vote.
The rules of reconciliation allow it to be used on a bill that covers a wide variety of subjects, as long as they fall into the jurisdiction of certain committees. “In the Senate, Sen”.
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The overall bill was a carefully crafted product of negotiations after two of the Republican senators also running for president – Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) along with Sen.
