The House initially passed a version of the Continuing Resolution with the ACA defunding provision. When it was delivered to the Senate, Majority Leader Reid used a procedure whereby he stripped the defunding language and substituted a Senate amendment for a clean (albeit limited duration) CR, which passed. There was no vote on a bill that contained the defunding language. The House took the Senate version that came back to them and amended it with a new limitation on the ACA and passed it. When it got to the Senate, there was a vote to table the House amendments (so in that sense there was a Senate vote on the House proposal) and they were tabled and the bill went back to the House which passed, for the third time, a CR with provisions relating to the ACA. And when it came back to the Senate, the House amendment was immediately tabled and it went back to the House.
So it is correct that there has never been an up or down vote on a clean CR in the House (not surprisingly since it is likely if not certain that enough repubs would jump ship, join the Democrats and vote for a clean CR if they had a chance). In the Senate, there have been indirect (i.e.motions to table) votes on second and third set of House amendments and a vote on a clean CR with the defunding provision having been stripped out without a direct vote.
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