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House conservatives hold firm as government shutdown looms
Source: Reuters
House conservatives hold firm as government shutdown looms
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON | Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:37am EDT
(Reuters) - With conservative House Republicans promising not to back down on an emergency spending bill in a push to defund President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, the U.S. government edged closer on Saturday to its first shutdown since 1996.
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The Senate, as expected, passed on Friday a straight-forward emergency-funding measure to keep the government running through November 15, after stripping out Republican language to end funding for the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare.
Republicans who control the House of Representatives must now decide how to respond, a move that could come as early as Saturday.
Representative Tom Graves of Georgia announced on Friday that he and 61 of his colleagues would insist on a one-year delay of "Obamacare," which is set to launch on October 1, as a condition of funding the government and averting a shutdown.
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By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON | Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:37am EDT
(Reuters) - With conservative House Republicans promising not to back down on an emergency spending bill in a push to defund President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, the U.S. government edged closer on Saturday to its first shutdown since 1996.
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The Senate, as expected, passed on Friday a straight-forward emergency-funding measure to keep the government running through November 15, after stripping out Republican language to end funding for the 2010 healthcare law known as Obamacare.
Republicans who control the House of Representatives must now decide how to respond, a move that could come as early as Saturday.
Representative Tom Graves of Georgia announced on Friday that he and 61 of his colleagues would insist on a one-year delay of "Obamacare," which is set to launch on October 1, as a condition of funding the government and averting a shutdown.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-usa-fiscal-idUSBRE98N11220130928
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