[1] The bill would allow amounts made available for the Department of Commerce—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)--Procurement, Acquisition and Construction to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.

The House cancelled a planned week of recess with the expectation that they would receive a revised version of the bill back from the Senate during that time.

All Republicans did vote against the final passage of the law, once the Affordable Care Act provisions had been stripped out, a sign, according to Senate Minority Leader McConnell, that Republicans were unified in their opposition to the Affordable Care Act itself.

In addition to removing the Affordable Care Act provisions, the Senate version would also only fund the government until November 15, 2013.

That afternoon, the House Republicans released the text of two amendments they planned to offer to the version of the bill they had received from the Senate.

First, they hoped that the speed at which the House was working and passing legislation would contrast well with the Senate's slower pace.

The Senate Majority Leader announced that it was "dead" in the upper chamber and President Obama threatened to veto it.

The Senate responded by again removing the language about the Affordable Care Act, and passing a "clean" bill.

[13] House Republicans reported that their next attempt would be to delay the individual mandate and end the employer healthcare contribution for members of Congress and their staff.

House Republicans chose to begin writing "mini-appropriation" bills - continuing resolutions that would fund smaller pieces of the government.

[16] Finally, on October 16, 2013, Congress passed the similarly-named Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which ended both the government shutdown and debt-ceiling crisis.

A few other provisions were debated, but most attention was directed at defunding the Affordable Care Act and the eventual government shutdown.

[12] House Republicans argued that this delay was "necessary to prepare a wary public for sweeping changes that lack the underlying infrastructure to make them work" and considered it a compromise position in comparison to their earlier efforts to defund the bill entirely.

Steve King of Iowa spoke out in favor of a shutdown, believing that it would help Republicans achieve their goal of defunding the Affordable Care Act.

King argued that there were examples of government shutdowns in the past that did not do devastating damage and were successfully used by one party to achieve their desired goals.

The NEA urged representatives to vote no because the bill "continues the devastating cuts to education set in motion by the sequester and permanently defunds the Affordable Care Act."

The organization states that they may decide to use the vote on this bill in their NEA Legislative Report Card for the 113th Congress.

The non-profit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington protested the inclusion of this in the bill, since the senator's assets in 2011 were over $57 million.