House to hold ACA repeal vote next week

Fox News (1/28) reports on its website that House Republicans are set to hold their first vote of the new Congress to repeal the ACA next week. The vote comes as the GOP debates how to address the health law. Republican lawmakers are facing mounting pressure from conservative groups “to go big in their efforts to dismantle the law, but the party is stuck in an internal debate over how far they can go, and whether undoing it piecemeal is a preferable course of action.” The article adds that although the GOP now controls the Senate, it remains “extremely unlikely” that any House-passed repeal bill would reach Obama’s desk, “as the party remains six seats short of being able to attain cloture.”

        The Hill (1/28, Marcos) reports in its “Floor Action” blog reports that the vote “will be the fourth time the House has voted to completely repeal ObamaCare. The last full repeal vote was in May 2013.”