WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are just a step away from capturing what they consider a political cudgel for next year’s elections: A veto by President Barack Obama of legislation devastating his health care law and Planned Parenthood.
The Senate approved the legislation in a near party-line 52-47 vote Thursday. The GOP-run House will likely ship the measure to the White House in a few days.
The bill would be the first to reach Obama’s desk aimed at demolishing his 2010 health care overhaul and halting federal payments to Planned Parenthood.
Congress has voted dozens of times to repeal or weaken the health law and repeatedly against Planned Parenthood’s funding. But until now Democrats thwarted Republicans from shipping the legislation to the White House.
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