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Deal to end government shutdown advances in Senate
The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
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The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.
this week about the government funding impasse, White House and Capitol Hill officials said Monday, after lawmakers left Capitol Hill for a week on Friday with little movement toward averting a partial shutdown
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., listed the stopgap measure on his floor schedule for the upcoming week. The Rules Committee is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m.
“I want to thank Congressional leadership who supported the bill and the overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives in both parties who voted to avert a rail shutdown,” Biden said in a
The Senate passed a short-term spending measure Thursday, sending to the House a bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown next week and boost aid to Ukraine.
the White House haven’t signed off on the proposal, which comes after negotiators missed a self-imposed deadline at noon on Friday for releasing the stopgap bill needed to avert a partial government shutdown
With the House gone until after the midterm elections, and the threat of a government shutdown removed until December, the Senate has Washington to itself this week, with the debate over the Supreme Court
Such a provision could also be included in the pending fiscal 2018 spending legislation, but members are hesitant to risk a possible government shutdown should Trump reject the eventual omnibus bill.
After seeing copies of the president’s recent private schedule (which is different from the misleading version released to the press), Swan reported that Trump normally holds his first meeting of the day