March 30 (UPI) -- Senate Republicans needed to call on Vice President Mike Pence and an ailing GOP lawmaker to pass legislation that seeks to give states the authority to withhold certain federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
The upper chamber held a vote Thursday to pass House Joint Resolution 43, which would allow state governments to block federal Title X family planning funds from organizations that perform abortions -- including Planned Parenthood, which has been at the center of an abortion debate for many months.