Senate passes stopgap spending bill; restores Obamacare funding
Source: CBS
With just three days left to avert a government shutdown, the Democratic-led Senate on Friday voted 54 to 44, along party lines, to fund federal operations for a few more months. The bill would keep the government through Nov. 15 at a $986 billion spending level.
The bill now goes back to the Republican-led House, where legislators will have to decide whether to accept the bill as passed or amend it again. They could pass some form of the legislation and send it to President Obama as early as Saturday.
"This is it. Time is gone," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Friday after the Senate vote. "The bill would pass the House -- the bill we just passed -- would pass the House overwhelmingly if the Speaker took it to the floor... I think they should think very carefully about their next step. Any bill that continues to play political games will force a government shutdown."
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