House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said his panel would move quickly to advance legislation that would reverse an HHS decision requiring religious organizations to provide health coverage for contraceptives.
The news from Upton's committee came not long after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) called the requirement an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom” and vowed on the House floor that the lower chamber would work to overturn the requirement if the Obama administration did not do so.