As expected, the Senate passed a bill Friday to keep the government funded through mid-November - without stripping any funding away from the president’s healthcare law.

Now the action returns to the House, where Republicans earlier in the week tied the measure to defunding the Affordable Care Act. With the threat of a shutdown looming three days away, the question now is, what will the House do?

On Friday before the Senate vote, even the Senate chaplain hinted that the squabbling and mounting anger on Capitol Hill had gotten out of hand. Barry Black delivered his usual morning prayers with one additional plea.

“Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis,” he intoned.

The Senate swiftly passed a bill to keep the government running while leaving Obamacare unscathed. Immediately after the vote, Texas Republican Ted Cruz rallied the House not to bend - to come right back with another bill taking aim at the Affordable Care Act.

“I am confident that if the House listens to the people as it did last week, that it will continue to step forward and respond to the suffering that is coming from Obamacare,” Cruz said. “It was striking today, it was sad, to see Senate Democrats together turn a blind ear.”

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