As House Republicans prepare to introduce a short-term continuing resolution under an open amendment process, expect one of those amendments to include language that removes all funding for the implementation of Obamacare. And expect it be included in the final legislation.

At a weekly press session with reporters this afternoon, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) said that the final spending resolution that passes the House is likely to include an amendment to ban all funding allocated for the new health-care law. “I expect to see one way or other the product coming out of the House to speak to that and to preclude any funding to be used for [Obamacare],” he said.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told National Review Online that such a measure would almost certainly be added to the CR, though he didn’t say whether the amendment would arise from his committee.

This would clearly up the stakes in an already heightened standoff between the Republican House and Democratic Senate over spending cuts. It would also mark a first step in the GOP’s effort to ‘defund’ the law, now that repeal has (predictably) run its course in the Senate.