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WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today voted to override President Obama's veto of legislation that would dismantle his deeply flawed health care law and cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood. 

The vote to override the veto of H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, fell short of the required two-thirds majority in a 241-186 vote. 

“While today’s vote was unsuccessful, it’s evident that Republicans have a path forward to undo these harmful policies,” said Foxx. “With a Republican in the White House, it will be possible to remove the heavy hand of the federal government from Americans’ health care and to end the stream of taxpayer dollars that flows to an organization that brutally kills precious, unborn lives.”

The legislation would have effectively repealed the mandate for individuals to have medical coverage as well as the mandate for employers to offer medical coverage to workers or face penalties. It would have eliminated the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices as well as the 40 percent excise tax, known as the “Cadillac” tax, on high-cost employer plans. Additionally the bill would have abolished the slush fund that gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services billions of dollars to spend each year with little accountability. It would have repealed the law’s expansion of Medicaid and the annual fee on health insurers.

H.R. 3762 also would have barred Planned Parenthood from receiving mandatory federal funds for one year and redirected those funds to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Center (RHCs), which outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics 20 to 1.

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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx represents North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and is the elected Republican Conference Secretary. Dr. Foxx is the chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and serves as Vice Chair of the House Rules Committee.