WASHINGTON — House Republicans are ready for their latest, doomed try to kill President Barack Obama’s health care law. With no chance of prevailing, it’s an exercise in election-year political messaging.
Tuesday’s House vote is an attempt to override Obama’s veto last month of a bill gutting much of the law and ending federal payments to Planned Parenthood.
Republicans have no chance of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to reverse Obama’s veto.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday’s vote will demonstrate that if a Republican wins the White House and retains control of Congress this November, the GOP will repeal the law.
The Wisconsin Republican also said the GOP will offer its own proposal this year for replacing the law. Republicans have struggled for years to coalesce behind a replacement.
