With the Senate having defeated both a pro-life budget bill the House passed and a Senate version not containing provisions to de-fund Planned Parenthood and stop some taxpayer funding of abortions, lawmakers move to the next step.

That step will likely come in the form of a temporary Continuing Resolution that would fund the federal government at current levels rather than make more demonstrative changes like the long-term CR that would have funded the federal government through September. The House and Senate agreed to a two-week CR already that allowed both chambers the chance to debate the long-term version that failed in the Senate yesterday.

Although the House included the Pence Amendment to de-fund Planned Parenthood and provisions to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, stop abortion funding in the District of Columbia and to remove funding for the pro-abortion UNFPA in the long-term bill, it did not include the provisions in the short-term measure because of the importance of avoiding a government shutdown and potential negative political ramifications from it...