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House Passes Stopgap Spending Measure


House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)

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By a vote of 335-91 -- including a majority of Democrats -- the House voted Tuesday afternoon to slash $4 billion in federal spending between March 4 and March 18.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate should adopt this package word for word within 48 hours, which will prevent a government shutdown.

The real shutdown fight begins now, as House and Senate leaders put their heads together over a longer-term spending bill, to keep the government running through September.

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