Updated 5:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- With the continuing resolution ball back in the House's court, where leaders lack any clear strategy, Rep. Tom Graves of Ranger is drumming up conservative backing for his own amendment that would delay Obamacare for one year.

The amendment has yielded 61 co-sponsors so far, including Georgia Republican Reps. Paul Broun, Doug Collins, Phil Gingrey and Lynn Westmoreland. It would exempt the Children's Health Insurance Program from the delay, a prime Democratic critique of his first "delay" plan.

Graves helped nudge leadership his way a couple weeks ago on a plan that ended up uniting the House GOP by forever killing the health care law. But the Senate kicked back a bill to extend government funding to Nov. 15, including the health care law.

House Speaker John Boehner either has to pass the Senate continuing resolution with Democratic votes, or send something back that attacks Obamacare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared after Friday's vote that he would not accept any tinkering with Obamacare.

A government shutdown looms on Tuesday.

The impeccably sourced Robert Costa at the National Review reported that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been plotting strategy with House conservatives.

On a Thursday conference call, a group of House conservatives consulted with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas about how to respond to the leadership’s fiscal strategy. Sources who were on the call say Cruz strongly advised them to oppose it, and hours later, Speaker John Boehner’s plan fizzled.

It’s the latest example of Cruz leading the House’s right flank.

The private call came together after Boehner unveiled his strategy at a Republican conference meeting earlier this week. Boehner’s plan — to focus on a debt-limit package, rather than a drawn-out CR battle — made many conservatives uneasy. As they mulled a response, they reached out to Cruz.

An aide to Rep. Paul Broun said the Athens Republican was on the call and has met with Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, "on a daily basis."Broun watched parts of Cruz's 21-hour speech attacking Obamacare from the Senate floor.

The debt ceiling strategy likely would have flopped with or without Cruz's encouragement, though his consultation with House conservatives is notable.

Graves has cast himself as one who is trying to find a path the entire, fractious House GOP can agree on -- though it is one Democrats who control the Senate and White House reject out of hand.

We'll see if he can do it again.

As for the Senate vote, as expected, Georgia's Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss voted to end debate on the House-passed CR, thus they were on Team McConnell and not Team Cruz. They then voted against the Reid spending bill restoring Obamacare funding, which passed in a party-line vote.

Here are the 18 Republicans who sided with the failed Cruz filibuster: Mike Crapo (Idaho), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Deb Fischer (Neb.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Dean Heller (Nev.), Jim Inhofe (Okla.), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kan.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Jim Risch (Idaho), Pat Roberts (Kan.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Tim Scott (S.C.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), David Vitter (La.).