UPDATE: The bill passed the House 246-181.

The House of Representatives is poised to pass legislation as soon as today to ban the Obama administration from giving states greater flexibility to design welfare-to-work programs, reviving a fight from the 2012 presidential campaign.

Republicans added the restriction to a broader measure to reauthorize the welfare-to-work program, known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. The vote is largely symbolic, since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) has no intention of bringing the bill to a vote in the Senate. But on Tuesday, the Obama administration offered Republicans an olive branch and indicated that it would not recommend a presidential veto.

“The administration is disappointed that the bill includes this unnecessary bar to innovative welfare-to-work strategies,” the White House’s Office of Management and Budget said. But it declined to issue a veto threat, and said it “does not oppose the extension of authority and funding” included in the legislation…