Durbin says deal struck with Boehner on Planned Parenthood funding

Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on the Senate floor Friday night that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had managed to work out an agreement about whether a budget for 2011 will include a rider that would defund women's health organizations across the country.

"I understand that has been worked out now with the Speaker and that he has considered a different approach now, thank goodness," Durbin said. 

Durbin added that all of Friday had been wasted "going back and forth" between the parties.

Last year, $75 million of Title X funding went to Planned Parenthood affiliates, which Republicans object to and attempted or are attempting to remove from the fiscal 2011 budget. Planned Parenthood provides abortion services but is not allowed to use federal money for them by law. Republicans argue there's no real way to segregate the private dollars dedicated to abortion services and the federal dollars backing other areas of care.

That disagreement was major stumbling block in negotiations for most of Thursday and Friday.

If a deal to fund the government is not struck before midnight Friday, the government will shut down. House Republicans and Senate Democrats remain in negotiations.