As conservative lawmakers look to the fall spending negotiations to defund Planned Parenthood, Republican leaders may dash their hopes by arguing it can’t be done effectively in a government funding bill, at least in the short term, as they work to avoid the politically damaging threat of a government shutdown.

Instead, the move to defund the group may be addressed in another standalone bill.

“We are going to be doing a lot of different things, not just dealing with the funding,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

Read the article “GOP Leadership May Look to Keep Planned Parenthood Out of Spending Fight” on washingtonexaminer.com.