Story highlights Plan would let conservatives vote to defund Planned Parenthood

Democrats will likely be able to block the bill

Federal government runs out of money Sept. 30

Washington (CNN) With just nine days before a possible government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is preparing to move on a strategy this week that would fund the government through early December, according to several Republicans familiar with the leader's emerging plan.

McConnell hopes his moves will overcome demands from conservatives who want to link their effort to defund Planned Parenthood with must-pass spending legislation.

"I don't think it's been finally decided but to me it's become increasingly apparent that the Senate is going to have to move," said the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, about the need for the Senate to move ahead on a plan while House GOP leaders sort out their next moves.

McConnell is expected to begin the process to consider the first of two bills Tuesday. It would bar money for Planned Parenthood, something many Republicans want to do in response to the recently revealed videos released by an anti-abortion group that showed workers for the organization discussing selling fetal tissue for scientific research. Planned Parenthood denies it did anything illegal and points out the videos are edited.

Democrats are expected easily to block that bill from getting the 60 votes necessary to pass the Senate, but McConnell hopes its defeat will send a clear signal to agitated right-wing Republicans in the House, and some in the Senate, to abandon their push to tie Planned Parenthood money to the short term government funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, or CR.

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