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Strips out Obamacare defunding measures.

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After a bipartisan cloture vote ended debate on a bill to continue funding the government, the Senate immediately voted along party lines to strip the bill's provisions to defund Obamacare and secure a laundry list of Republican pet projects. After the 54-44 vote, the bill returns to the House, from whence it came. The bill would temporarily increase the government's debt limit ahead of the October 1 deadline.

Read it at The Washington Post