Susan Day reports:
The House GOP leadership plans a vote on a bill that would delay the Affordable Care Act for one year, according to a senior GOP aide who would not be identified ahead of the public announcement. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is under significant pressure from the right to hold the line on insisting that any stopgap spending bill delay or defund President Obama's health care law.
Reports say that the Republicans would also seek a repeal of the medical device tax. Speaker Boehner left the meeting about 30 minutes ago without commenting to the media.
Members of the House are meeting in a rare Saturday session today on the matter. The House voted Sept. 20 along party lines, with a smattering of Democrats on board, to pass the spending bill without Obamacare. The Senate last week passed a "clean" continuing resolution that stripped out the House's defunding.
If the House vote goes the way Republicans want, a government shutdown at midnight Monday will become all-but-certain. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will not again bring to the floor a CR that doesn't include funding of Obamacare.
The House is currently finishing up a vote on H.Res. 361. If passed, this temporary rule change would allow the House to consider rules related to spending or the federal debt ceiling on the same day they are passed by the House Rules Committee.
House Republicans are also said to be planning to introduce a bill today that would fund the military in a case of a government shutdown.
You can watch the drama unfold on CSPAN here.