Washington (CNN) - modify the legislation repealing President Obama 's health care removes a key obstacle procedure in the House of Representatives on Friday, advancing a priority of the new Republican majority in Congress.
The highly partisan 236-181 vote will likely set up a final vote of the House to withdraw the measure next Wednesday.
Nearly all Republicans voted to advance the measure, almost all Democrats opposed it.
If a vote for the repeal of success would be a GOP campaign promise, the measure is considered to have virtually no chance to survive or Democratic-controlled Senate or a presidential veto promised.
"We will vote to repeal Obamacare again and again until we confide their takeover by the government to the dustbin of history where it belongs," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana. "Welcome to the 112th Congress American people -. This is your week."
"We're moving an effort to repeal President Obama use Bill of killing ... and replace it with real solutions," said GOP Rep. California David Dreier, Chairman of the Committee Rules of the House. "We want to start with a clean slate."
Democrats criticized the new Republican majority to push for a final vote on the measure without allowing the consideration of any amendment, which they characterized as a violation of the commitment for a GOP legislative process more open.
Democrats also seized on Thursday the release of an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which concluded that the repeal of health care reform will add $ 230 billion in federal debt over the next decade.
Republicans have offered a repeal of the law of health care legislation prohibiting new rules to add to the debt. At the same time, they questioned the CBO's analysis, saying it was based on unrealistic economic assumptions and financial originally provided by Democrats.
"The numbers don t lie, '" said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-New York. "The Republicans have long appreciated the work" of the CBO. But now they do not like his estimates, "they have taken for questioning (his) work."
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, criticized Republicans for "reopen old ideological battle" and stripping people of new services provided by the reform, such as a ban on hats and annual benefit for life.
"We should focus on jobs and the economy," he said.
"The Republican Party has become little more than an arm of the insurance monopoly," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas.
Fifty-four percent of Americans opposed the new law on health care, according to a poll CNN / Opinion Research Corporation released Dec. 27. Forty-three percent support the measure.
Only 37% however, oppose the legislation because they think she is too liberal. More than six in 10 Americans favor of specific provisions in the measure to prevent insurance companies to drop coverage for seriously ill people or deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
Six in 10 Americans oppose the law 'requirement for all Americans to obtain health care coverage, according to the survey.
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