Armstead files letter to state DHHR inquiring on Planned Parenthood funding

But the bill would have cut money for Planned Parenthood, which receives about $450 million from the government to provide other family planning and health care services, primarily to low-income men and women through Medicaid and state grants.

“House Republican leaders continue to talk with members about the path forward on a continuing resolution and legislation that would stop abortion providers from their horrific practices against babies”, Boehner spokesperson Emily Schillinger said in a statement.

The Senate on Thursday stopped the Republican-led effort to defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood denies allegations that it has improperly used fetal tissue from abortions.

“We find ourselves with unneeded and unnecessary drama when it comes to funding the federal government”, Sen.

The next steps aren’t set in stone, although top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has promised there won’t be a government shutdown.

The bill would have funded the government at a rate of $1.017 trillion annually until December 11, which Senate GOP leaders said gave Congress ample time to negotiate a budget deal with President Obama.

It’s not yet clear whether the House will move its own bill or wait for the Senate to vote.

The group says it has done nothing wrong and that the videos are unfair and deceptive.

The vote to block the stopgap spending bill was widely expected.

The White House said Obama would not sign any bill that included the Senate amendment eliminating the group’s funding.

“Instead of attempting to reassert Congress’s constitutional prerogatives, Republican leaders are engaged in a series of political show votes”, the group said, citing reports of Sen. Planned Parenthood is now the only recipient of the money. At community health centers – which, as it happens, is where federal funding that now goes to Planned Parenthood would be redirected under legislation recently blocked in Congress.

Sending such a measure to the GOP-controlled House just a day or two before a potential shutdown seems aimed at giving Republican leaders in the House the push needed to roll over recalcitrant tea partyers opposed to a bill that fails to take on Planned Parenthood.

As The Hill reports, House conservatives could once again rally behind Cruz AS they did for the 2013 shutdown. Conservative hard-liners including Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, were summoned to Boehner’s suite but would not comment on his plans.