The U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a measure approved earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which ties funding for government agencies to a one-year delay of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

In a vote of 54-46, the Democrat-dominated Senate stripped the language of delaying the Obamacare from the House-version of a stopgap funding bill, which was approved in early Sunday morning.

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