In Surprise Announcement, Hagel Recalls Most Defense Department Workers

When the House met on Saturday, it voted 407 to 0 to approve the measure supported by Mr. Obama to guarantee back pay for furloughed government employees. He said Republican leaders would not allow a vote to reopen the government without delivering a blow to the president's health care law, with a delay in the mandate that individuals buy health insurance and a prohibition on federal subsidies for members of Congress, White House leaders and their staff members, who must buy policies on the law's new insurance exchanges. The bill continues a House Republican strategy of passing a series of smaller spending measures on popular topics in an effort to pressure Democrats to reopen at least portions of the government. The pay for government workers - which, unlike the spending sought in other Republican measures, would be retroactive - might be considered by the Senate, though no final decisions have been made.

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