Sunday, September 29, 2013

US Senate would reject House bill as shutdown looms (Reid to shutdown the Government)

bbc ^ | 9/28/2013 | staff

US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has warned that his Democratic-led chamber will reject a House Republican bill to avert a government shutdown.
The Senate passed its own bill to fund government until 15 November - ahead of the 1 October shutdown deadline.
But House Republicans are refusing to support the measure without a provision to remove funding from President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
Agencies are making contingency plans as the two parties remain deadlocked.
In a statement, Senator Reid said that "after weeks of futile political games from Republicans, we are still at square one".
He added that Republican efforts to pass the House bill - that would delay the healthcare law for a year and repeal a tax on medical devices - were pointless.
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