The Senate voted, along party lines, to strip language defunding Obamacare. (Talk Radio News Service, Creative Commons)

In the aftermath of Senator Cruz's all-night filibuster, the Senate voted 54-44 in favor of stopgap spending legislation to prevent federal government shutdown come the first of October, The New York Times reports.

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According to the Times, the vote strips from the Senate funding bill House Repubican language that would defund the Affordable Care Act. Opponents of Obamacare, within and outside of Congress, have been fighting doggedly for several weeks to keep the legislation out of the federal budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year.

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Though, in this case, senators voted along party lines, an overwhelming majority—including the top Republican leadership—voted to cut off debate on the legislation, leading to its inevitable partisan outcome.

Read the full story at The New York Times.

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