House GOP launches shutdown battle by voting to defund Obamacare
President Barack Obama said Friday that a faction on the far right of the Republican Party was "actually willing to plunge America into default if we can't defund" health care reforms known as Obamacare.
With one vote on Friday, the Republican-led House launched the latest spending battle in Congress -- one that could bring a government shutdown in less than two weeks.
By a 230-189 tally almost strictly on party lines, the House passed a short-term government spending plan that would eliminate all funding for Obamacare.
The measure now goes to the Democratic-led Senate, which is certain to reject the provision that defunds President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement of his first term.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/20/politics/congress-spending-showdown/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
