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Congress Averts Government Shutdown With Hours To Spare

By Thomas McKinless
Posted September 30, 2015 at 10:12pm

By Thomas McKinless and Emma Dumain

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Though conditions on the ground looked eerily similar to those that caused a two-week government shutdown two years ago, the House on Wednesday passed legislation to keep federal operations afloat through Dec. 11. Read more

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