Senate Republicans are sticking with their plans to use a budget procedure this week to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act,  with a provision to defund Planned Parenthood, site of a deadly attack in Colorado on Friday.

The procedure, known as budget reconciliation, would allow the Senate to pass the measure with just 51 votes, rather than the 60 it usually takes to break a filibuster, making it easy for Republicans to put legislation on President Obama’s desk, although he’s expected to veto it. The Planned Parenthood provision was added to the Obamacare repeal measure earlier this year in response to the videos showing executives from the organization discussing the sale of fetal tissue, although Planned Parenthood has said it did nothing illegal.

Read the article “Senate GOP on Track to Defund Planned Parenthood” on realclearpolitics.com.