Oct. 10, 2013: House Speaker John Boehner, joined by fellow Republicans, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.APHouse Republicans plan to vote Tuesday night on a revised budget proposal that would end the partial government shutdown, raise the debt ceiling and, in a challenge to Democrats, force government officials from President Obama on down to obtain health insurance through ObamaCare.
House Speaker John Boehner's office announced late Tuesday afternoon that they would proceed with a vote. Operating on a tight timeline, lawmakers are trying to hammer out a bill before Thursday's deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
Though Republicans have considered over the last several weeks a range of provisions relating to ObamaCare, the one they settled on in this package would force Congress, the president, and many other administration officials and staff onto ObamaCare without additional subsidies. GOP lawmakers described the proposed mandate as a matter of "fairness."
"If the president and Senate Democrats are going to force the American people to live under ObamaCare, then they and all Washington leaders should not be shielded from the law," one GOP aide said.
If the bill passes, the House would effectively dare the Senate to hold up the bill -- and risk missing the debt-ceiling deadline -- because senators don't want to submit to ObamaCare.
The House was moving swiftly, after details of the revised proposal trickled out following a day of closed-door meetings. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made clear that Democrats would not be supporting the plan in its current form.
Senate leaders have effectively hit pause on their own negotiations while talks play out on the House side. House Republicans surprised Senate negotiators earlier Tuesday when they announced they were pursuing their own framework for a deal.
But while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats blasted Boehner for the move, sources indicate the Senate could wait on the House -- if for no other reason than, procedurally, it would save a lot of time. That's because a measure coming from the House could not be filibustered.
Fox News is told the latest plan to emerge in the House would end the partial government shutdown by funding the government through Dec. 15. It would also raise the debt ceiling through Feb. 7 -- in turn averting the looming Thursday deadline to raise the debt cap.
Unlike a prior proposal, it would not include a provision delaying the medical device tax in ObamaCare. It would include a provision limiting the Treasury Department's ability to buy more time when faced with future debt-ceiling deadlines.
Importantly, the plan would kick other budget decisions, including the debate on the medical device tax, to a conference committee.
Republicans earlier claimed the details of their plan were not so far off from a bipartisan approach being crafted in the Senate. Republicans urged Democrats to give it a chance, and questioned why they would preemptively reject it.
"To say, 'absolutely categorically not, we will not consider what the Republicans in the House of Representatives are doing,' in my view, is piling on," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on the Senate floor, as Democrats lined up against the House plan. "Let's sit down and work this out."
The mood in Washington has shifted drastically in the last day, with both sides of the aisle hurling accusations at one another when, the night before, bipartisan leaders in the Senate were claiming on the floor to have made significant progress.
Boehner was mum on the details of the new approach earlier Tuesday. "We're talking with our members on both sides of the aisle to try to find a way to move forward today," he said.
Yet Democrats, reacting to the few bullet points that emerged on the earlier version of the plan, slammed it.
White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage called it a "partisan attempt to appease a small group of Tea Party Republicans who forced the government shutdown in the first place."
Pelosi said Boehner was "wasting the public's time."
In the most visceral remarks, Reid alleged Boehner is trying to "preserve his role at the expense of the country" -- and said his plan will not pass the Senate.
"Extremist Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to torpedo the Senate's bipartisan progress with a bill that can't pass the Senate ... and won't pass the Senate," he said.
Amid the partisan crossfire, President Obama met with House Democratic leadership Tuesday afternoon.
A senior aide confirmed to Fox News that the House plans to work out of an existing budget bill to save time.
That both chambers are now working on a separate track complicates matters as lawmakers try to meet a Thursday deadline to strike a deal raising the debt ceiling. The government is also entering week three of a partial government shutdown, which took effect after Congress failed to reach an agreement by Oct. 1.
On the Senate side, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., reported significant progress Monday night on their own plan.
Fox News has learned that the emerging framework on the Senate side would raise the debt ceiling through February, and include a spending bill meant to last through Jan. 15.
That version would not include any provision relating to the ObamaCare medical device tax.
It's unclear how much conservative support the new House plan has. But many conservatives were unhappy with the Senate version and raised concerns that Senate Republicans would go along with it.
Some were still holding out hope that Republicans could score a bigger victory against ObamaCare, and singled out GOP senators like Bob Corker of Tennessee, John McCain of Arizona, and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who have all suggested the initial push to try and defund ObamaCare as part of the fiscal deal was a bad strategy.
Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp panned them as part of the "Senate Surrender Caucus." "And they wonder why conservatives don't trust them," he told FoxNews.com.
Heritage Action for America -- the political advocacy arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, which has led efforts to defund the health care law -- also remained critical of the Senate side.
"To their credit, House Republicans responded to their constituents by pushing to defund this unworkable, unaffordable and unfair law," said Mike Needham, chief executive for Heritage Action. "Unfortunately, their leverage is being severely undermined by many of their Senate colleagues who do not share their determination."
Fox News' Chad Pergram, Bret Baier and Mike Emanuel and FoxNews.com's Joseph Weber contributed to this report.
