Monday, September 30, 2013

DearBill de Blasio,



I urge you to consider the merits of the combination of metformin and aspirin to treat and or mitigate cancer in its various forms. The merits of the combination are obvious from a  search of pubmed.org for eg cancer  and aspirin , cancer and metformin, aspirin metformin and cancer.

While the Hiram Maxim school of healthcare is guaranteed to be 100 percent effective, I think that you might wish to see others at least start with a more nuanced approach. As you may observe both components of the combination are cheap, safe and inexpensive and thus the only people that will study the combination are those confronted with the failure of other things who have not yet decided to try hot lead healthcare as taught by Dr. Hiram Maxim whose great invention will live on and make money for many more years.
Open Biol. 2013 Jan 8;3(1):120144. doi: 10.1098/rsob.120144.

Oxidants, antioxidants and the current incurability of metastatic cancers.

Source

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY 11724, USA. berejka@cshl.edu

Abstract

The vast majority of all agents used to directly kill cancer cells (ionizing radiation, most chemotherapeutic agents and some targeted therapies) work through either directly or indirectly generating reactive oxygen species that block key steps in the cell cycle. As mesenchymal cancers evolve from their epithelial cell progenitors, they almost inevitably possess much-heightened amounts of antioxidants that effectively block otherwise highly effective oxidant therapies. Also key to better understanding is why and how the anti-diabetic drug metformin (the world's most prescribed pharmaceutical product) preferentially kills oxidant-deficient mesenchymal p53(- -) cells. A much faster timetable should be adopted towards developing more new drugs effective against p53(- -) cancers.
PMID:
23303309
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID:
PMC3603456

Free PMC Article
 
Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2013 Aug;6(8):801-10. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-13-0058-T. Epub 2013 Jun 14.

Inhibition of lung tumorigenesis by metformin is associated with decreased plasma IGF-I and diminished receptor tyrosine kinase signaling.

Source

Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.

Abstract

Metformin is the most commonly prescribed drug for type II diabetes and is associated with decreased cancer risk. Previously, we showed that metformin prevented tobacco carcinogen (NNK)-induced lung tumorigenesis in a non-diabetic mouse model, which was associated with decreased IGF-I/insulin receptor signaling but not activation of AMPK in lung tissues, as well as decreased circulating levels of IGF-I and insulin. Here, we used liver IGF-I-deficient (LID) mice to determine the importance of IGF-I in NNK-induced lung tumorigenesis and chemoprevention by metformin. LID mice had decreased lung tumor multiplicity and burden compared with wild-type (WT) mice. Metformin further decreased lung tumorigenesis in LID mice without affecting IGF-I levels, suggesting that metformin can act through IGF-I-independent mechanisms. In lung tissues, metformin decreased phosphorylation of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) as well as levels of GTP-bound Ras independently of AMPK. Metformin also diminished plasma levels of several cognate ligands for these RTKs. Tissue distribution studies using [(14)C]-metformin showed that uptake of metformin was high in liver but four-fold lower in lungs, suggesting that the suppression of RTK activation by metformin occurs predominantly via systemic, indirect effects. Systemic inhibition of circulating growth factors and local RTK signaling are new AMPK-independent mechanisms of action of metformin that could underlie its ability to prevent tobacco carcinogen-induced lung tumorigenesis.
 

De Blasio’s father committed suicide while suffering from cancer

Mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio has said relatively little about his absent father – a Yale graduate whose life went into a tailspin after his brutal military service in World War II sparked heavy drinking.
But public records uncovered by The Post show that his dad’s life didn’t just turn tragic in the decades after he lost part of his leg in the Battle of Okinawa – it ended tragically as well.
On a July morning in 1979, Warren Wilhelm was found with a self-inflicted gun wound in a parked car outside the Rocky River Motel in New Milford, Conn.
The 61-year-old, who lived 35 miles away in New Haven after having split from de Blasio’s mother in Massachusetts a decade earlier, was suffering from late-stage terminal cancer at the time, according to public records.
“The local police received a call at 8:24 a.m. from a subject stating that he or she had found a man dead in vehicle,” reads a brief Aug. 2, 1979 article in the New Milford Times. “The police said their investigation revealed that the wound had been self-inflicted with a rifle.”
A death certificate filed in the town clerk’s office shows that the medical examiner found not just a chest wound, but also “carcinoma of the lung and metastases.”
The one-page report says Wilhelm was born in Staten Island, had gotten divorced  from Maria de blasio and was working as a freelance writer at the time of his death.
It names Bill’s older brother, Steven, as the one who provided all the information to the medical examiner’s office.
De Blasio has never publicly discussed his father’s death, and has only spoken generally about the deeply personal pain of seeing his father succumb to alcoholism and disappear from home when Bill was 7. His parents divorced the following year.
De Blasio declined The Post’s request to discuss his relationship with his father, who died when Bill had just graduated high school in Cambridge, Mass., at age 18.
His older brothers Steven Wilhelm, a journalist in Seattle, WA, and Don Wilhelm, of Brookline, Mass., could not be reached for comment.
In his most detailed words on the subject, de Blasio told WBGO-FM last year that he respected his late father “immensely,” particularly for his heroic war service.
“I think honestly, as we now know about veterans who return, [he] was going through physically and mentally a lot from that point on. And by the time I came along in the beginning of the 60s, he was unfortunately in a downward spiral,” de Blasio said.
“So this was someone I can now say I have immense, immense respect for what he did, but I also saw, unfortunately, a lot of the bad side,” de Blasio told the radio station. “He was an alcoholic, and my mother and father broke up very early on in the time I came along, and I was brought up by my mother’s family — that’s the bottom line — the de Blasio family.”
His closeness to his mother’s side eventually prompted him to change his given name – of Warren Wilhelm, Jr. – first to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, and then finally to Bill de Blasio.
His mom, an author who also served during World War II in the Office of War Information, for years lived down the block from de Blasio and his family in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
She passed away in 2007.
De Blasio issued a statement saying, “While this has been a private part of my family’s life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge.  My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.”

Medical School Students would benefit

from studying the work of  Ratner EJ, The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 which describes the treatment of Dr. Mark Altschule's (of Harvard Medical School) patient, Mrs. J Edward Spike Jr. for causalgia, AKA Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Causalgia was described in the medical literature of the US Civil War. It was regarded as untreatable then and as untreatable now. If you match a patient with the characteristics of Mrs. Spike you will be able to treat her in the same fashion.  Editing is useful but there are more ways to have fun and be useful?  Ratner's federal personnel file is publicly available.  Sadly Obama has never studied any of Ratner's publications nor his United States records.

Editing Wikipedia Pages for Med School Credit

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Medical students at the University of California, San Francisco, will be able to get course credit for editing Wikipedia articles about diseases, part of an effort to improve the quality of medical articles in the online encyclopedia and help distribute the articles globally via cellphones. While professors often incorporate Wikipedia work into classes, hoping that student research can live on online, the university and others say this is the first time a medical school will give credit for such work.
“We as a profession have our corpus of knowledge, and we owe it as a profession to educate the lay public,” said Dr. Amin Azzam, a health sciences associate clinical professor at the U.C.S.F. School of Medicine who will teach the monthlong elective course in December.
The course is open to fourth-year medical students and was scheduled for a month when many travel the country for interviews to arrange their residencies, so they need the flexibility to work remotely, Dr. Azzam said. Three students have signed up for the course, but he said that this time was really to test whether the concept was worthy.
He said he could envision such a course being required for students as they begin studies and must immerse themselves in the details of how the body works, and, at times, stops working.
Wikipedia editing will force students to think clearly and avoid jargon, he said. “We do a great job in helping them talk to doctors, but we don’t do as good a job in helping them speak to the public,” he added.
The students’ editing will be part of Wikiproject Medicine, which focuses contributors on the 100 or so most significant medical articles, including those on tuberculosis and syphilis, but especially on those important articles that need the most editing. (The project lists more than 350 active editors, many of whom cite an advanced degree under the header “medical qualification.”)
These articles are submitted to a group from Translators Without Borders that produces medical articles for Wikipedias in languages spoken in countries that often lack high-quality medical information. Examples include an article in Javanese on dengue fever and one in Hindi on urinary tract infection. Creating these high-quality medical articles fits neatly with efforts by the Wikimedia Foundation to make deals with cellphone carriers to provide Wikipedia content free of data charges, especially in the developing world where cellphones are often the only connection to the Internet.
“If we want to get high-quality information to all the world’s population, Wikipedia is not just a viable option, but the only viable option,” Dr. Azzam said.
He credited one of his former students, Dr. Michael Turken, 32, a first-year resident in internal medicine at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, with helping to conceive of the course.
Dr. Turken said the importance of Wikipedia’s medical information became clear to him a couple of years ago when a friend asked him how long H.I.V. tests could give false negative readings.
A Wikipedia entry said two weeks, and “that didn’t seem right,” he said. “I checked with the literature, and it is up to 28 days, based on the test.” He made the change, then looked at how many people read the article a month — often tens of thousands. Rather than be offended at the open access to Wikipedia pages, Dr. Turken said he found it “very reassuring that it is a collaborative effort,” with many people checking what is written.
Dr. Azzam said the details of the course were still being worked out. He said he planned to see the students for two days at the start to plot the writing and editing requirements, then track their work on Wikipedia. While some might fear that his students would cut corners, Dr. Azzam said: “I am working with medical students — professionals in training — who are highly motivated. I’m not worried about them slacking.”

It is not a violation of tax laws to want to bet

and/or work when Andrew Cuomo is in Church and tracks are running all across the United States with great races to bet.  Working is for people who are Governor. Betting is for people who are not Governor.
NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 is the official toilet paper of the State of New York.


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September 30, 2013

NYS Tax Department Arrests Dunkirk Man for Filing False NY Tax Returns

IRS says he also filed 122 bogus Federal tax returns

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox announced that a Dunkirk, NY man under investigation for tax fraud was arrested today for filing fraudulent income tax returns  - in the names of deceased individuals. 
John Berry, 42, of 65 N. Ermine Street, was charged with Offering a False Instrument in the First Degree, a class E felony and Attempted Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, a class A misdemeanor.  He was arraigned in Dunkirk City Court before the Hon. Walter Drag.  He was released on his own recognizance.  His next court appearance is scheduled for October 15.  
The Tax Department’s investigation found a number of the withholding statements (W-2s) used fraudulently by Berry claimed wages from a not-for-profit entity located in Chautauqua County.  The investigation revealed that the persons listed on the W-2s were dead.  Berry filed 40 New York State income tax returns between 2008 and 2009 claiming fraudulent refunds of $25,194.  
Working with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department also learned that, for the same years of 2008 and 2009, Berry sought $200,000 in illegal refunds by filing 122 Federal returns, again using the social security numbers of dead people.  Berry has pled guilty to the charges brought by the IRS and is expected to be sentenced on those charges in October.  
“This is a case in which the State, leveraging information from the Federal government, was able to identify multiple instances of stolen identity, and bring them to an end,” said Commissioner Mattox.  “It appears the defendant clearly set out to steal on a regular basis from the State, and by doing so, cheat all the taxpayers of New York who pay their fair share.  Such criminal activity won’t be tolerated.” 
The arrest was made and the case investigated by the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the New York State Tax Department.  In addition, a CID officer has been appointed as the Special Assistant District Attorney to prosecute the case.  CID is comprised of attorneys, criminal investigators and auditors tasked with uncovering violations of the State Tax Law. 
In New York State, 96% of taxes are paid by businesses and individuals who voluntarily meet their tax responsibilities. The remaining 4% is collected through the Tax Department's audit, collections and criminal investigations programs. Through its enforcement programs, the Department ensures fair tax administration for all New Yorkers. 
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.


 

Andrew Cuomo, the Shut Down man

closes Nassau OTB only on Roman Catholic holidays so he can pray. Andrew Cuomo can go to hell for thinking that NY express a religious preference (see eg NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3) in law, NY PML Sec 109

Andrew Cuomo for President of Iran



national politics

Cuomo cites 'lunacy' of shutdown debate

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. (Sept. 21, 2013)
Photo credit: Getty Images | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. (Sept. 21, 2013)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he had watched "the lunacy that's going on in Congress" this weekend over the federal government shutdown, contrasting it to what he called the more functional politics in Albany.
"Government is about finding the commonality, finding the compromise. Government is about moving forward," Cuomo said in front of about 20 North Fork officials at Orient Beach State Park. "It's not about standing still while everyone gives their political speech and the people of the nation suffer."
He compared the situation in Washington to prior years in Albany, where state budgets were delayed, calling it the "annual fiasco when the state went to do its budget."
"I can see how politics can overtake government. And the political forces win," Cuomo said.
 "It's not that we don't have tough issues. It's not that we always agree. We promised each other years ago, we were not going to allow politics to overtake the government. We're Democrats and we're Republicans, but we're New Yorkers first, and we're going to act that way."




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Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.


Saturday, September 28, 2013

Support (?) LIPA, Suozzi and Nassau OTB,


and Nassau OTB, the Tom Suozzi LIPA farm team eg Christopher Wright, former Nassau OTB Director and John Fabio who helped build the Carle Place Palace for Nassau OTB.

Under the Tom Suozzi Crime Family Nassau OTB did operate with only two Directors when NY PML Sec 502 required that there shall be three directors.

Juice is only for electric chairs.

State audit finds LIPA management flawed

LIPA and other utility crews work to repair
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | LIPA and other utility crews work to repair damaged poles and downed lines. (Aug. 27, 2013)
The Long Island Power Authority is "separated from the realities of daily operations," leading to poor customer service, high electricity rates and poor operational control, a critical new state audit of the utility found.
The audit, released Friday and conducted by an outside contractor on behalf of the state Department of Public Service, criticizes nearly every element of LIPA operations -- from its management team to its ability to control a vast network of outside contractors necessary to keep the lights on.
"LIPA exists as a nucleus, separated from the realities of daily operations, information and experience by a commercial contract barrier," the report says, taking aim at the public-private operating structure under which National Grid has operated.

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"Based on our analysis, it appears that LIPA is organized and operated from the board of trustees down largely as a contract administrator, without full appreciation of its ultimate responsibility to provide safe, reliable, reasonably priced electric service to the residents of Long Island," the 400-page report said.
The audit said LIPA:
Has no plan for "how it can control rates over time," saddling customers with the second-highest bills in the state.
Has no "comprehensive plan for provision of quality electric utility services . . . "
Manages National Grid without "sufficient consideration of value received for the investment."
Doesn't adequately monitor or investigate cost overruns.
The audit includes 83 recommendations for LIPA and its new operator, PSEG, to implement to address the problems. Forty are PSEG's responsibility and the rest are LIPA's, including hiring and keeping more experienced staff and developing a "strategic plan to address the totality of the provision of electric service to Long Island."
LIPA has acknowledged problems identified in the audit and has committed to instituting the recommendations.
While the audit found that LIPA's current management team has done an "acceptable job" in difficult times, it has "significant need" of new leaders with deep utility experience, the audit found.
That finding comes as LIPA is about to turn nearly all its functions over to PSEG of Newark, N.J., and cut its staff roughly in half -- to no more than 50 employees. The new contract will require "continuous guidance, diligent oversight and meaningful intervention to assure things are done right," the department found.
"LIPA needs to take direct responsibility for customer service and needs to be integrally involved in its improvement," the audit says, adding that LIPA customers "deserve to be treated with maturity and respect."
LIPA officials say they plan to address the oversight issue through a newly formed Department of Public Service on Long Island, a component of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's LIPA reform bill signed this summer.
But LIPA's history of monitoring its contract with National Grid is spotty. When National Grid's performance under the existing contract fell below acceptable levels, LIPA renegotiated its agreement with the company to increase penalties but failed to enforce even previous sanctions, the audit found.
The audit noted that LIPA even relied on National Grid to conduct internal audits of National Grid's own performance. It stopped using National Grid audit teams because it couldn't obtain the underlying data and had "concerns about the quality of the audits." LIPA appears to have been denied access to a range of data that would have given it a clearer window into the costs of running the utility, including employee costs. "LIPA has no information on the compensation structure of National Grid Long Island employees," the audit found.

LIPA | Board of Trustees - Long Island Power Authority

www.lipower.org/company/profile/trustees-bios.html
Meet the Long Island Power Authority's Board of Trustees. Lawrence J. Waldman; Laurence S. Belinsky; Matthew Cordaro; John C. Fabio; Jeffrey H. Greenfield.

Take the ADA BCG challenge and decide for

yourself.

BCG will treat and /or cure your Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.
See faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl.
BCG is available all over the world and should be readily available to diabetics and others with autoimmune diseases. While you are walking think about fauustman's work and support the I can do it You Tube video in which I, a Type 1 diabetic with other autoimmune diseases, will shoot BCG and record the results because it is best to fight for what you believe in instead of walking to keep others in business. I will be glad to be shot with BCG and share the results with you. Faustman's work speaks for itself and a You Tube Video and a couple of simple tests will show that you are being scammed.
Have a pleasant walk and use your minds to think and ask questions.

The healthcare motto of the US need not only be cheap high qaulity semiautomatic weapons and ammunition for all. Sadly Hiram Maxim was perhaps the greatest MD ever. There was no disease his invention could not cure, simply and inexpensively with guaranteed results.

I however simply want to shoot BCG and get better and not get scammed and/or robbed.

Tell the ADA to go to hell and shoot BCG or shoot me with BCG if you want to see how it works on a thinking diabetic human being.
PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e41756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041756. Epub 2012 Aug 8.

Proof-of-concept, randomized, controlled clinical trial of Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin for treatment of long-term type 1 diabetes.

Source

The Immunobiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. faustman@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

No targeted immunotherapies reverse type 1 diabetes in humans. However, in a rodent model of type 1 diabetes, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) reverses disease by restoring insulin secretion. Specifically, it stimulates innate immunity by inducing the host to produce tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which, in turn, kills disease-causing autoimmune cells and restores pancreatic beta-cell function through regeneration.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:

Translating these findings to humans, we administered BCG, a generic vaccine, in a proof-of-principle, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of adults with long-term type 1 diabetes (mean: 15.3 years) at one clinical center in North America. Six subjects were randomly assigned to BCG or placebo and compared to self, healthy paired controls (n = 6) or reference subjects with (n = 57) or without (n = 16) type 1 diabetes, depending upon the outcome measure. We monitored weekly blood samples for 20 weeks for insulin-autoreactive T cells, regulatory T cells (Tregs), glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and other autoantibodies, and C-peptide, a marker of insulin secretion. BCG-treated patients and one placebo-treated patient who, after enrollment, unexpectedly developed acute Epstein-Barr virus infection, a known TNF inducer, exclusively showed increases in dead insulin-autoreactive T cells and induction of Tregs. C-peptide levels (pmol/L) significantly rose transiently in two BCG-treated subjects (means: 3.49 pmol/L [95% CI 2.95-3.8], 2.57 [95% CI 1.65-3.49]) and the EBV-infected subject (3.16 [95% CI 2.54-3.69]) vs.1.65 [95% CI 1.55-3.2] in reference diabetic subjects. BCG-treated subjects each had more than 50% of their C-peptide values above the 95(th) percentile of the reference subjects. The EBV-infected subject had 18% of C-peptide values above this level.

CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE:

We conclude that BCG treatment or EBV infection transiently modified the autoimmunity that underlies type 1 diabetes by stimulating the host innate immune response. This suggests that BCG or other stimulators of host innate immunity may have value in the treatment of long-term diabetes.

TRIAL REGISTRATION:

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00607230.
PMID:
22905105
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID:
PMC3414482

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Friday, September 27, 2013

House Republicans should help see that

BCG is available to all Americans who seek same. See eg faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl
the healthcare motto of the US need not be ONLY cheap ammunition and semiautomatic weapons for all.
Firearms are safe, effective and guaranteed effective healthcare but I prefer BCG which is available all over the world and is safe, cheap and effective, all the things that Obama and the republicans and democrats do not want


House Republicans Hunt for Plan in Budget Battle

As Shutdown Deadline Nears, Senate Strips Health-Law Defunding Pushed by Conservatives

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  • KRISTINA PETERSON
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  • JANET HOOK
WASHINGTON—House Republican leaders struggled Friday to come to terms with conservative lawmakers who want to halt the new federal health-care law, leaving unclear how an increasingly dysfunctional Congress might be able to pass a spending bill by Monday night to avert a fiscal crisis.
The Democratic-led Senate approved legislation Friday to fund federal agencies for the first six weeks of the fiscal year and to restore money for the health law. The GOP-led House last week passed a bill to avert a shutdown that also defunded the law, as demanded by the chamber's conservatives.
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With three days to go before the federal government is due to run out of money, Senate Democratic leaders hold a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday.
The next move belongs to House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), who has said the House will not pass the Senate bill but hasn't yet laid out how he plans to amend it.
House leaders face a difficult situation. Mr. Boehner doesn't want to alienate the dozens of lawmakers who won't back any spending plan that doesn't in some way limit the reach of the health law.
At the same time, Senate Democrats say they will reject any measure that alters the health law.
Underscoring the dilemma, a group of 62 conservative GOP lawmakers emerged with their own demand late Friday: delay the health-care law for one year as part of the spending bill. The proposal is sure to be discussed during a rare Saturday meeting of House GOP lawmakers called by Mr. Boehner to figure out a way forward.
The standoff both between the two major parties and within the GOP brings the federal government to the brink of a shutdown with little obvious room for resolution. Unlike in previous showdowns, there have been no major negotiations among congressional leaders or with the White House, which is taking an increasingly combative tone.
Associated Press
House Speaker John Boehner, at the Capitol on Friday, doesn't want to alienate conservative lawmakers.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Friday added to the pressure on the House by adjourning the Senate until Monday afternoon, narrowing the window of time for any last-minute legislative volleys between the chambers.
Rep. Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) said that delaying the health law for a year made sense, given that major elements of the law have been delayed, such as a provision imposing penalties on large employers who fail to provide insurance for their workers.
"We think that's fair and reasonable. Close to half of Obamacare has already been delayed," Mr. Salmon said.
Mr. Salmon also said that House lawmakers had met with tea party-aligned Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, both Republicans, on Thursday night to discuss the House's next steps, and agreed to hold out for a one-year delay of the health law. Some 15 House conservatives met with the two senators at a townhouse on Capitol Hill, according to a Republican lawmaker.
The strategy keeps House Republicans on a collision course with Senate Democrats. "We are going to accept nothing as it relates to Obamacare,'' Mr. Reid said after the Senate approved its spending plan.
Some House Republicans signaled that they were willing to affix narrower proposals to the spending measure, such as a repeal of the health law's tax on medical-device sales.
Some also talked of limiting contributions the federal government would make to lawmakers, their staff and certain White House officials to offset the cost of their premiums under the health law.
"It does seem like we're all over the place," Rep. Tom Rooney (R., Fla.) said on Friday.
So far, financial markets have largely shrugged off the budget standoff. But there are signs of growing concern, especially if there is no agreement to raise the ceiling on U.S. government borrowing by mid-October.
In the derivatives market, the cost to insure for a year against a default by the U.S. government has risen sixfold in the past week, and the price of one-month Treasury debt has fallen. But the benchmark 10-year Treasury note has rallied, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is just 2.7% below its record close. Still, if history is any guide, markets may become more tumultuous as the debt-ceiling deadline nears.
President Barack Obama in past budget and debt negotiations with Republicans has been accused by fellow Democrats of giving ground too easily. He has adopted a more confrontational style in the current budget battle, including comments on Friday in which he complained of "extremists'' and "shenanigans'' in Congress.
Speaking from the White House, Mr. Obama said he wouldn't agree to policy provisions that Republicans plan to attach to budget and debt-related bills, saying new demands would arise in the future with every routine fiscal deadline.

Seib & Wessel: Clock Ticks on Government Shutdown

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WSJ’s Damian Paletta says the lack of movement toward a budget deal is like a formulaic Hollywood thriller – the clock always ticks down to one second as viewers wonder if Republicans and Democrats will cut the wire in time.
"That's why we have to break this cycle.…Do not threaten to burn the house down simply because you haven't gotten 100% of your way,'' Mr. Obama said.
Responding to Mr. Obama, Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, said: "The House will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that Americans don't want a government shutdown, and they don't want the train wreck that is Obamacare.''
If no agreement is reached by midnight Monday, federal agencies will have to stop providing many services and furlough many employees. Services and agency functions deemed essential would continue.
If House lawmakers alter the Senate's spending bill, the measure will return to the Senate, where legislation can take days to navigate over procedural hurdles.
That is stoking anxiety among some Republicans, who worry that their party will take the greater share of public anger if the government shuts down.
"I do believe Republicans will be blamed," said Rep. Charles Boustany (R., La.). Some House Republicans are more concerned about the prospect of a shutdown than others, he said. "There are some, I think, who would relish a shutdown. I think that's unfortunate," he said.
The stopgap spending bill passed the Senate in a 54-44 vote Friday, along strict party lines. Earlier in the day, it cleared a procedural hurdle, 79-19, with 25 Republicans joining the Democratic caucus to end debate on the bill.
Friday's Senate votes capped a week of procedural theatrics in the Senate, where a faction of tea party-backed lawmakers, led by Mr. Cruz, objected to speeding up some of the chamber's proceedings, to the irritation of veteran lawmakers in both parties. Mr. Cruz and his allies said their delaying tactics were intended to call attention to problems with the health law and to try to eliminate money for it.
—Patrick O'Connor
contributed to this article.
Write to Kristina Peterson at kristina.peterson@dowjones.com and Janet Hook at janet.hook@wsj.com