WASHINGTON, D.C.: With five days until a possible United States (US) government shutdown, lawmakers were to mull options for keeping agencies open while potentially postponing a battle over President Barack Obama’s health care law.

The Senate expected to approve a stopgap funding bill soon that strips out a provision defunding the controversial health law, while House Republicans were to confer early Thursday over possible plans to shift the health care fight to mid-October, when lawmakers will need to raise the debt ceiling.

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