WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republican leaders will use a must-pass highway bill to start another fight over the president’s health care law.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to introduce an amendment to the transportation bill to fully repeal “Obamacare.”
McConnell’s spokesman says that would set up a likely vote on the health care amendment on Sunday.
The Senate is rushing to complete the highway legislation before states face a cutoff of highway and transit aid one week from now.
The House has voted about 50 times to repeal Obama’s health law, but the Senate was under Democratic control until this year and has not followed suit.
The health law survived a critical challenge at the Supreme Court last month.