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• SENATE APPROVES SPENDING BILL TO FUND THE GOVERNMENT - December 12, 2016

• Senate Avoids Shutdown With Last-Minute Approval of Spending Bill

  By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  In a highly contentious, 11th hour vote, the Senate late Friday voted 63-36 to stave off a government shutdown that would have closed federal agencies at midnight. 

  President Obama is expected to immediately sign the continuing resolution to avoid the appropriations lapse and keep the federal government open through April 28. Several Democratic senators threatened to prevent a vote on the measure over the timing of a provision to provide health care to retired coal minters, but relented with just hours to spare. 

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