U.S. Senate passes bill to avert government shutdown, sends to House, The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly anesthetized legislation to avoid a government shutdown, sending the admeasurement to the House of Representatives just hours afore allotment for federal agencies runs out at midnight.
Passed by a 78-20 vote, the bill would accumulate federal agencies adjourned at accepted levels through Dec. 11. It does not cover a arguable accouterment to cut off money to Planned Parenthood that abounding bourgeois Republicans had demanded.
The allotment bill aims to accord aldermanic negotiators and President Barack Obama about 10 weeks to plan out a longer-term account accord that lasts at atomic through the new budgetary year catastrophe Sept. 30, 2016.
But first, the House needs to accept the admeasurement in time for Obama to assurance it into law afore a midnight deadline. Timing for that vote was still ambiguous but House Republican aides said they were aiming for an afternoon vote.
The House Rules Committee was accepted to accede whether any acquiesce amendments to the allotment bill at a affair backward Wednesday morning.
Conservative Republicans were authoritative a last-ditch accomplishment to alter the Senate allotment admeasurement to restore a arguable accouterment that would cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood.
Many awkward conservatives wish to abuse Planned Parenthood because of allegations that the women's healthcare alignment break awash fetal tissue harvested from abortions.
Planned Parenthood has denied atrocity and the defunding accouterment was blocked by Senate Democrats, backed up by an Obama veto threat. It was bare from the Senate admeasurement anesthetized on Wednesday morning.
The 172-member Republican Study Committee's proposed amendement aswell would prohibit Obama from appropriation anti-nuclear sanctions on Iran during the continuance of the band-aid allotment measure.
Passed by a 78-20 vote, the bill would accumulate federal agencies adjourned at accepted levels through Dec. 11. It does not cover a arguable accouterment to cut off money to Planned Parenthood that abounding bourgeois Republicans had demanded.
The allotment bill aims to accord aldermanic negotiators and President Barack Obama about 10 weeks to plan out a longer-term account accord that lasts at atomic through the new budgetary year catastrophe Sept. 30, 2016.
But first, the House needs to accept the admeasurement in time for Obama to assurance it into law afore a midnight deadline. Timing for that vote was still ambiguous but House Republican aides said they were aiming for an afternoon vote.
The House Rules Committee was accepted to accede whether any acquiesce amendments to the allotment bill at a affair backward Wednesday morning.
Conservative Republicans were authoritative a last-ditch accomplishment to alter the Senate allotment admeasurement to restore a arguable accouterment that would cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood.
Many awkward conservatives wish to abuse Planned Parenthood because of allegations that the women's healthcare alignment break awash fetal tissue harvested from abortions.
Planned Parenthood has denied atrocity and the defunding accouterment was blocked by Senate Democrats, backed up by an Obama veto threat. It was bare from the Senate admeasurement anesthetized on Wednesday morning.
The 172-member Republican Study Committee's proposed amendement aswell would prohibit Obama from appropriation anti-nuclear sanctions on Iran during the continuance of the band-aid allotment measure.
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