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The chances of averting a partial shutdown of the federal government seemed to vanish Sunday as leading members of Congress blamed their opponents for being unwilling to come to an agreement on a spending bill. The house vote Obama healthcare late Saturday night to delay President Barack Obama's health care overhaul for a year, a move which made it almost inevitable that a partial shutdown will start Monday at midnight. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said Sunday that the Senate would reject two amendments the House passed late Saturday night, one to delay Obamacare for a year and another to repeal the tax on medical device manufacturers. The Florida Us house Senate Vote bill is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. and there were no indications of an earlier meeting despite calls Sunday from Senate GOP Whip John Cornyn and conservative leader Sen. Ted Cruz for Harry Reid to bring the senate back into session on Sunday. When the Senate takes up the House measure Monday, it seems likely that Reid will offer a motion to table or kill it.
Speaking for the president, White House spokesman Jay Carney said that Any member of the Republican Party who votes for this bill is voting for a shutdown. The president, he said, would also veto the Republican bill. However, House Republicans went ahead with the changes, ignoring the veto threat and passing the bill in a late night session by 231 votes to 192. The senate is controlled by Mr Obama's Democratic Party, while the Republicans hold the majority in the house of Representatives. The US house of representative vote that house and senate like two locomotives barreling toward one another in slow motion," tweeted Republican Representative Scoot Rigell.
President Obama urged House Republicans to pass the Senate's stopgap budget bill and to extend the debt limit, and demanded they not threaten to "burn the house down because you haven't gotten 100% of your way. Mr Obama said the Senate had "acted responsibly" in passing the budget measure and that now it was up to Republicans in the House of Representatives to do the same.