House passes temporary government funding bill months early to avoid election season shutdown
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall's critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4.
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(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers have teed up a Continuing Resolution that would extend government funding at current levels until Dec. 4, punting the government shutdown deadline by two months.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall's critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4.
House GOP leaders are racing to pass a stopgap funding measure, seeking to avoid the kind of government shutdown that has brought them pain in the past. The stopgap measure would fund the government from Oct. 1 through Dec. 4, buying lawmakers time to complete the annual appropriations process.
House Republicans plan to push through a short-term government funding deal through December this week that would prevent a government shutdown before the midterm elections, as a spending showdown days before the election could prove politically perilous to the party in power.
House Republicans will aim to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s midterm elections with a vote to fund the federal government through Dec. 4. The deadline for action is more than two months away. But House GOP leaders…
The House passed a bill Tuesday evening that would keep the government funded through Dec. 4, but the Senate is preparing an alternative stopgap measure.
Lawmakers are hoping to avoid a third shutdown since last September. The stopgap funding measure now heads to the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future. (Image credit: Mariam Zuhaib)
The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap measure that would fund federal agencies at existing levels through Dec. 4, in an effort to avert a potential government shutdown before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. The lower chamber voted 220-205 to pass the measure. Six Democrats and Rep.
Measure authorizes spending until 4 December as Republicans seek to avoid volatile issue in election season The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December, with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in …
The short-term spending bill would ensure the federal government remains open through Dec. 4, well past the Sept. 30 funding deadline and the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
WASHINGTON -- The House passed a stopgap bill to fund the government into December in an effort to avoid another government shutdown weeks before the midterms, but the effort faces an uphill climb in the Senate.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. House passed a short-term continuing resolution to keep government funding on cruise control past the looming Oct.1 shutdown date, sending the bill over to the Senate.
The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance another possible shutdown souring the mood of voters shortly before they go to the polls.
The House voted Tuesday to keep the federal government open through early December, passing a continuing resolution that now faces long odds in a Senate where Democrats hold enough votes to block it. The stopgap measure cleared the chamber 220, 205, with 213 Republicans joined by six Democrats and R…
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