One such measure could be the proposed repeal of a medical device tax that would collect $30 billion over 10 years and help pay for some of the costs of Obamacare.
Senate Democratic aides have insisted, however, that a measure like that, even though it has broad bipartisan support, should not be attached to this emergency spending bill, and some senior Republican and Democratic senators have already rejected the idea.
House Republicans are also challenging Obama on the debt limit increase that the Treasury Department says is urgently needed by October 17.
House Republican leaders said that in addition to seeking to delay Obamacare, they will also attach some spending cuts and other initiatives to a debt limit bill, something that Obama has said he would not tolerate.
Obama wants a debt limit increase with no strings attached.
(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro, Rachelle Younglai, Caren Bohan and Richard Cowan; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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