FOXNews.com: Senate advances ObamaCare, budget bill after marathon Cruz speech

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Senate advances ObamaCare, budget bill after marathon Cruz speech Sep 25th 2013, 17:27 Published September 25, 2013 FoxNews.com The Senate voted Wednesday to advance a controversial bill that would both avert a government shutdown while defunding ObamaCare, after Sen. Ted Cruz delivered a marathon 21-hour speech in a bid to rally public opposition to the health care law.  Despite Cruz's efforts, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is expected to swiftly strike the ObamaCare language, leaving only a stopgap spending bill that would keep the government open until mid-November. This will tee up yet another stand-off with Republicans. Without an agreement, the government will partially shut down on Oct. 1, but some Republicans continue to demand that the health law be defunded in exchange for a budget bill.  "ObamaCare isn't working," Cruz said Wednesday, as he departed the Senate floor after speaking in opposition to the law from Tuesday afternoon straight through until noon on Wednesday.  Cruz's speech was a symbolic stand, as he was not actually able to stall the bill. In the end, he and every other senator voted to advance the bill and proceed to debate. The vote was 100-0.  What comes next is a complicated set of procedural maneuvers, with no clear outcome.  Reid hopes to put up a clean bill that simply keeps the government open past Sept. 30, and send it the House by the end of the weekend. Presuming Reid can muster the votes, majority Republicans in the House will then have to decide whether to stand by their demand that the health law be defunded and risk a government shutdown, or pass the Senate bill -- in turn keeping the government open, but allowing key parts of the controversial health law to launch in early October.

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