A HOUSE DIVIDED AMONG PARTY LINES BUT THEN THE GOP SHOWS UP UNITED AGAINST FUNDING THE WORST PIECE OF LEGISLATION PERPETRATED AGAINST BUSINESSES AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CALLED OBAMACARE

…..a united House Republican majority passed a continuing resolution Friday that would defund Obamacare and lock in sequester spending levels through Dec. 15, setting up a fight with Senate Democrats as a shutdown looms Oct. 1.

“We in Congress were sent to Washington by our constituents to fight for them,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Friday on the floor. “We should pass this continuing resolution so the Senate can finally begin to do the same.”

The CR passed 230-189 with a nearly party-line vote. A single Republican, Scott Rigell of Virginia, voted no. Two Democrats, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Jim Matheson of Utah, voted in favor.

But that was the easy vote for House Republicans.

The real battle will be when the proposal bounces back from the Senate, with the Obamacare defunding language almost certainly stripped and the spending level potentially increased from the $986.3 billion the House passed.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/house-passes-obamacare-defunding-bill-as-shutdown-looms/