WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate today cast aside a House-passed spending bill that included a one-year delay of the new health care law, and the House geared up for another broadside against the law tonight -- delaying its mandate that everyone buy health insurance.

In short, we're all but guaranteed a partial government shutdown at midnight. But the Senate did yield to one House demand: Active-duty military troops will be paid on time in a shutdown, a bill both the Senate and the House passed unanimously. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Savannah, was a key backer of the troop provision.

That came after a party-line 54-46 vote to "table" -- or set aside -- the House bill, to extend government funding to Dec. 15, delay Obamacare for a year and repeal the law's tax on medical devices. Georgia Republicans Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss voted no.

Democrats' demand remained the same: A "clean" continuing resolution with no policy changes. House Republicans aren't going to give it to them.

They emerged from a lengthy afternoon caucus meeting in the bowels of the Capitol with yet another plan. They plan to vote late tonight on a spending bill that delays the "individual mandate" that all people buy health insurance by a year, until January 2015.

They also will eliminate the federal employee health insurance subsidy for members of Congress, their staff, President Barack Obama and all his political appointees. This has been a divisive issue also pushed by Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Marietta, amid public outcry over what's perceived as a "special deal" for Capitol Hill on the Obamacare exchanges. (More background here.)

"What I hope folks are seeing is the House has tried time and time again to find some middle ground, but the time of negotiating with ourselves has come to an end," said Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Lawrenceville. "I have expected better from the Senate throughout this process. I hope I get it at this point."

There is no indication that Woodall will get his wish from Reid, as Washington girds for a shutdown.

Rep. John Barrow, D-Augusta, is preparing to weather it without his own paycheck. He introduced an amendment to the continuing resolution to block pay for members of Congress during a shutdown, and they would not be eligible for retroactive pay.

“If Congress doesn’t do its job, they shouldn’t be paid -- it’s as simple as that," Barrow said in a statement. "We should be accountable to the people who sent us here, and this is the least we can do to show that.”