Updated 4:24 p.m. | House Republicans will attempt to re-amend a stopgap spending bill with a one-year delay of Obamacare's individual mandate and a provision eliminating health benefits for members of Congress and their staff, Rep. Darrell Issa of California said today. The move will be the House's third attempt to get the Senate to agree to legislation that would undermine the president's signature health care law. The House is expected to vote sometime tonight, but members cautioned it could be a late vote. The Senate voted earlier today to table, or kill, the House's amendments designed to delay the entire Obamacare law for a year and repeal a medical device tax. Last week, the Senate voted to strip the House-passed continuing resolution of amendments that would defund implementation of the health care law. After emerging from a 2 p.m. GOP Conference meeting, Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., cautioned that the conference is not as united behind the newest plan as it was when leaders proposed on Saturday to delay the entire law for a year. Shuster said members "overwhelmingly" support the newest plan, but he noted, "there are definitely some members who disagree with it." Former Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for example, said he could support the plan — but just barely. (more…)
