House Republicans Push for Senate Health Vote on Budget
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House Republican leaders are lobbying their members to back a government financing strategy that would force the Senate to take a vote on defunding President Barack Obama’s health-care law.
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor must persuade Republicans to vote for their plan to pair a short-term stopgap spending measure with a resolution to strip money for the health-care law. House Democrats plan to oppose the maneuver.