The House on Tuesday voted to send a short-term extension of government funding to President Trump's desk, avoiding a politically risky shutdown before the midterm elections. The continuing resolution ...

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The House passed a bill on Tuesday to extend government funding to December 11, clearing a path to avert a shutdown ahead of the midterm elections. The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support ...

To the amazement of anyone familiar with recent struggles to keep the federal government humming along, a bipartisan stopgap spending bill easily overcame the first and biggest Senate hurdle yesterday ...

It seems that despite their vast differences, both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have decided that they wouldn’t benefit from a government shutdown right before the midterms. Perhaps even more ...