Senate, the shutdown
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As Congress considers whether to raise the debt ceiling in the coming weeks, President Obama has had to respond to questions about his own prior votes on the debt limit when he was a United States senator. Obama’s press secretary Jay Carney told ...
The House is preparing to vote on a Continuing Resolution-Minibus appropriations bill which passed the Senate on Monday.
The party line vote came on the 113th day after the June 30 deadline. Democrats criticized the plan as “unserious” and a failure to compromise.
The government is a step closer to reopening and ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history after eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus broke with the Democrats by voting to pass a bill that provides funding for the large part of the federal government until Jan.