House votes to avert federal shutdown, Senate chances dim
WASHINGTON (AP) " On the edge of a government shutdown, a divided House voted late Thursday to keep the government open past a Friday deadline " setting up an eleventh-hour standoff in the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to kill the measure.The partisan roadblock in the GOP-controlled Senate left just a day and little hope for negotiators searching for a way to avoid shuttering federal offices and keeping thousands of employees home from work. A closure, coming on the one-year [...]
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