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WASHINGTON -- The federal government is poised to shutdown for the first time in nearly two decades following more than a week of legislative jockeying by House Republicans to extract concessions from President Obama and Senate Democrats on the Affordable Care Act.
House Republicans were on track to make a fourth and final attempt in the hour before a midnight shutdown to again advance a GOP-backed plan to delay the individual mandate to purchase health insurance on exchanges that begin the open enrollment period on Tuesday.
Republicans were also seeking a motion to start formal negotiations with the Senate on the stopgap spending measure --an unusual request for a six-week spending bill the funds the government at current levels, but it provides Republicans a vehicle to keep the debate going.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he would not put a Senate-passed bill on the floor to keep the government funded through Nov. 15 because it does not include any provisions affecting the healthcare law.
"That's not going to happen," he said.The Senate voted twice Monday to reject House efforts to delay the individual mandate, repeal a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices enacted to help pay for the law, and a proposal to eliminate a proposed subsidy to members of Congress, their staffs, and members of the Obama administration to buy insurance in the new system.
Obama reiterated that he would not sign any bill that seeks to dismantle the law.
"One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election," Obama said at the White House.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., maintained the only way to avoid a shutdown is to approve the Senate-passed stopgap spending bill with no provisions on Obamacare.
"They try to send us something back, they're spinning their wheels," Reid said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats will deliver most of their 200 votes if Boehner would agree to put the Senate bill on the floor.
"I think it's very clear Democrats are making an explicit offer to the speaker to keep government open.
Whatever he may bring out of his caucus to bring to the floor, we hope that he will also give a vote to the clean (funding bill)," Pelosi said.
Susan Davis, USA TODAY
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