Following their midwinter recess, Republicans in Congress moved to send a bill repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care law to the White House on Wednesday.

After more than 50 failed attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, the GOP-controlled House was pass legislation that will undo the law. As a result, the bill will be sent to Obama's desk, where he is guaranteed to veto it.

Wednesdays vote in the House marked Congress' first legislative act of 2016, and the first time such a bill was pushed all the way to the White House.

"First priority in 2016: Putting bill on Obama's desk that repeals Obamacare," Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said on Twitter Wednesday.

In order to pass the bill without getting blocked by Senate Democrats, Republicans used special rules to approve a reconciliation bill that protected it from a Democratic filibuster. Hence, it passed the Senate in late 2015, so Wednesday's House vote will send it directly to the president.

"We have used the one tool that we can each year - reconciliation - to get a repeal bill on his desk. With this bill we are standing for life," Ryan said at a press conference hours before the House vote.

Democrats and administration allies, however, denounced the vote as a waste of time.

"Since both House and Senate Republicans know President Obama will veto the bill, this is nothing more than government by temper tantrum," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a health advocacy group. "If it were real legislation, this unprecedented action would constitute the largest take-back of health care coverage in our nation's history."

The Republican bill aims to end requirements for people to obtain coverage and larger employers to offer it to workers. It would also eliminate the expansion of Medicaid coverage and cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

"It is appalling that in their first week back in session the top priority for Republican leaders in the House is rolling back women's access to preventive health care," said Dawn Laguens, vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, in response to the vote, according to ABC News.

If enforced, a repeal to Obamacare would disproportionately hurt Latino communities since over half a million Latinos receive services at Planned Parenthood every year, while the women's health center offers 470,000 Latinas with family planning counseling and contraception each year.