House plans to use fast-track budget tool to attack Obamacare, Planned Parenthood

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Washington Times:

Republicans in charge of top House committees want to use a fast-track budget tool to take a big bite out of Obamacare and redirect funding away from Planned Parenthood amid controversy over its abortion practice.

 

Saying it’s “time to put an Obamacare repeal bill on the president’s desk,” the Ways and Means Committee will vote Tuesday to scrap the 2010 law’s most unpopular taxes and mandates through budget “reconciliation.”

 

That includes the controversial individual mandate requiring Americans to hold health insurance. Without the mandate, the law’s delicate economics would likely fall apart, blowing a hole in President Obama’s signature law.

 

Budget reconciliation is a complex budget tool that allows Congress to forge new legislation while avoiding a filibuster in the Senate. Democrats used the tool to help pass Obamacare in 2010, although Mr. Obama would still maintain a veto over whatever Congress passes this time around.