Senate To Reject GOP's Obamacare Delay Bill Hours Before Shutdown
SAHIL KAPUR – SEPTEMBER 30, 2013, 10:40 AM EDT
The Democratic-led Senate is expected on Monday afternoon to rebuff the latest temporary spending bill passed by the House, keeping the pressure on House Republicans just hours before a federal government shutdown at midnight.
Democrats will bring up one motion to table the GOP's amendments to delay Obamacare for a year, repeal the law's medical device tax and allow employers to opt out of contraception coverage for employees, leadership aides say. It would require 51 votes. House Republicans were furious that Senate declined to return to session Sunday after the lower chamber voted to amend the continuing resolution late Saturday night.
"The Senate will do exactly what we said we would do and reject these measures," said Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), on Sunday. "At that point, Republicans will be faced with the same choice they have always faced: put the Senate's clean funding bill on the floor and let it pass with bipartisan votes, or force a Republican government shutdown."
Reid has united his 54-member Democratic caucus in rebuffing Republican efforts to attach extraneous provisions to the Senate's "clean" continuing resolution. After the Senate acts, House Republicans would have time for one more vote. They could insist on more provisions Obamacare and risk a shutdown or swallow the clean stopgap bill. GOP leaders wanted to avoid risking a shutdown over Obamacare, aware that polls say they would probably be blamed for it, but they've been coerced by their right flank.
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and it is a great chess move.....which infuriates the GOTP 
