….Neither side showed signs of surrender early Sunday after the Republican-led House added a one-year delay in implementing health-care reform to legislation that would avert a shuttering of federal offices on Tuesday. The near party-line vote was 231-192, shifting the focus to the Democratic-run Senate less than 48 hours before government funds run dry.
(VIEW THE ROLL CALL VOTE http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll495.xml)
Democrats said delaying the health care law would sink the bill. They also opposed a second provision the House added by 248-174: A repeal of a tax on many medical devices that helps finance the 2010 health care overhaul…….(VIEW THE ROLL CALL VOTE http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll497.xml)
….The House also approved a separate bill paying troops, plus some defense contractors and civilian Pentagon workers, should a shutdown occur. The vote was 423-0. (VIEW THE ROLL CALL VOTE http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll499.xml)
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