The Senate Appropriations Committee will mark up a spending bill for the departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor Thursday as senators try to catch up the House’s progress on legislation to fund the government next fiscal year.

The House was originally slated to vote on a Labor-HHS bill this week, but Republican leaders sent their members home early after they couldn’t pass bills to fund agencies like the FDA or the Energy Department.

Now the Senate faces the task of advancing through committee a bill to fund major health programs and wrangle with issues like whether or not to fund gun violence research and what restrictions on abortion funding might be needed to garner enough Republican support for it.

Groups pushing to expand abortion access such as All*AboveAll and Planned Parenthood have called on Congress to end the long-standing Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds from being used for abortion services, and the Weldon Amendment, which protects health plans and providers that refuse to cover or perform abortions.